Kate MorleyApr 28, 2025
I designed the 12-bit rainbow palette for use on https://grid.iamkate.com. It consists of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue. The palette uses a 12-bit colour depth, so each colour requires only four characters when specified as a hexadecimal colour code in a CSS or SVG file. For more details, see https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/
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Show threadbenApr 28, 2025
@katemorley hm, now I want to figure out using these for a terminal/editor theme.
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Terminal is relatively straightforward and I think they work well. An editor theme is going to be more complex, of course And it's slightly arbitrary which colour is the "bright" one, since the whole point is that none of them are brighter than the other.
Apr 29, 2025 at 1:21pmWeb
Show threadbenApr 29, 2025
actually that blue on a black background isn’t great, not enough contrast.