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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finally took the time to port the code I've written for the sphere to the other "3d" example that was CSS only before: rybitten.space

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#My9Games - Alley Cat - Doom II: Hell on Earth - Super Mario Bros. 3 - X-COM: UFO Defense - Sid Meier's Civilization - Noita - StarCraft - Winter Games - Metal Slug goood.games/gamer/meodai...

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Daniel Wilson @helsig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#shiptember The cybernetic collective's perfection was fragile. Rogue drones resistant to assimilation plotted uprisings. Clashing mosaics of alien technologies spawned self-directing evolutions that entered the hive mind, introducing conflicting directives, thriving off the chaos. #scifi #startrek

A cube-shaped ship made of many different components. Light green and gray coloring over a light blue background. Isometric art done in ink and colored in Krita.

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Joshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy to finally build and release the color ramp creator I’ve always wanted to use. Phosphor generates perceptually linear gradients and lets you edit, share, and export them for use in ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, GDAL, and other formats. I hope you find it helpful. www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/

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Phosphor

Multi-hue color gradients with perceptually linear lightness. Export to CSS, Python, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro or GDAL.

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Varun Vachhar @varun.ca · 20/09/2026

Built a little tool to explore found palettes

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

CuspHanger has been getting a lot of attention lately! So I wanted to honour the paper triggering its development: Palettes can now be generated in CIELuv, the space Wijffelaars et al. originally used. meodai.github.io/cusphanger (Adds HCT as well, mostly because I wanted to try it)

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Varun Vachhar @varun.ca · 20/09/2026

Another little tool built on top of @meodai.bsky.social's Cusp Hanger to create palettes for generative systems. One ground colour plus foregrounds grouped by contrast. It generates a smooth ramp per hue and selects colours off that ramp by measured contrast.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As LLMs make it increasingly convenient to get answers without understanding how stuff works. I think P5 is more important than ever. I learned by experimenting and figuring stuff by myself. If you did as well, please consider donating to the P5: processingfoundation.org/support/donate/

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CuspHanger 0.4.0 gives you control over the lightness steps, in the form of a bezier curve or any other function. meodai.github.io/cusphanger/

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

what if UI's looked a bit more like the problem they are addressing?

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

OK Palette Benchmark and report.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Generating a full ramp for every hue is probably one of the least appropriate technique for design systems I can think of. It assumes every hue can produce a useful set of steps but gamuts are irregular and some hues just can't reach the same chroma and lightness without going dull or distorted

OKLch gamut showing rainbow colors in it. from my slides about palette generation: https://meodai.github.io/palette-generation/#9

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 01/10/2025

In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur #Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sichere Kommunikation mehr geben. netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...

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Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt

In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After testing 100s of imgs comparing tiny and big changes to the algo: I am now confident to present to you: The new okpalette.color.pizza. Powerful as before, ~40% faster, better at detecting good presets and much better at finding rare colors! Test it with your pics and let me know what you think

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

RYBitten 1.3.0 is out 🔴🟡🔵 - Default import is not ~1.5KB instead of 17KB. - p5.js 2.0: colorMode(RYB) / colorMode(RYBHSL)!!

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Laurent Jégou @ljegou.cpesr.fr · 09/09/2026

J'aime bien la description des #couleurs par la version japonaise, comme " Vert-citron : couleur d’un cédrat pas encore mûr, c’est une couleur résultant du mélange entre orange et vert. " interfas.univ-tlse2.fr/etudes-japon...

School and Family Charts, no XIV, « The Chromatic Scale of Colors »
Library of Congress

Miniatures des Irozu figurant dans les « Questions-réponses des planches des couleurs » (Irozu mondō 色図問答) de Naitō Hikoichi 内藤彦一, Kyōto, Keiundō 奎運堂, 1879, pages de garde. National Diet Library collections

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Nikita Rokotyan @rokotyan.com · 05/12/2025

🪐 Cosmograph 2.0 is finally here after two years of development! Work with larger datasets, use SQL, open Parquet files, save & share your graphs, integrate with Python or React, ... All thanks to open source tools like WASM DuckDB, Mosaic, SQLRooms and our cosmos.gl → cosmograph.app

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I listened to a podcast about sugar and decided to quit added sugar completely as a self-experiment. That was about 1.5 years ago. Sometimes I think my biggest challenge isn't sugar, it's that I'm much better at extremes than moderation. What's your secret to moderation?

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I vividly remember my cousin making fun of me for buying a 400mb hard-drive for my 386. He said I would never be able to fill it.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 27/08/2026

I’ve been using David’s (@meodai.bsky.social ) palette maker farbvelo.elastiq.ch?currentSeed=... again and it came up with really fun colour combo this morning. Very 1990s.

A screenshot of a Kelly Green then lighter green palette that then fades in to yellow light orange and then a pale coral.

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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 23/08/2026

I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers. codepen.io/editor/chris...

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm Christina I've been a professional illustrator since 2005 and a specialist game artist/ art director since 2009. I've worked for Mojang (on Minecraft), Netflix Games, WB Games I've been unemployed for 8+ months. I'm tired of rejection letters. Please help me find a paying project #gamedev

My cover illustration for the game Space Jam (on which I also did all the art and animation)

Bugs Bunny, Lebron James and Lola Bunny are posing in front of an enemy from the game, blending in as a star-filled sky.

a portrait of Otto Rehagel for Esquire Magazine

My terraria illustration for Lost In Cult's Deluxe Edition book on Terraria.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

farbvelo 2.0 is getting somewhere

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hope these will disappear over time. Early on, it felt like webmasters were proud they'd added dark mode, so they showed it off. More and more followed, and it somehow became a weird standard. It's not a novelty anymore. It feels a bit like the old "Print" or "Back to top" button.

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SaKo @sako.works · 30/05/2026

260528 pico-8-edu.com?c=AHB4YQT5As... #pico8 #dailycarts

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Yep! Type Foundry @yeptype.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I keep 60+ neo-grotesks on hand. Fewer than a third have vertical metrics that actually center a label on a button. Here’s how to spot the ones that do—and 10 Inter and SF alternatives that qualify. yeptype.com/article/inte...

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How to choose a UI font (and 10 Inter alternatives)

Tired of Inter being everywhere? Two real criteria—cap-centered vertical metrics and a tall x-height—for choosing a UI font, plus 10 alternatives from independent foundries.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Design systems should store decisions, not their outputs. "Text is the most muted readable color against the surface" is the actual design decision; #2e1d3f is just one evaluation of it. Most systems ship thousands of frozen evaluations and lose the reasoning, which is exactly why they rot.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

new toy: RayColor 🎾 generative palettes from a raytraced scene: one sphere, a five-sided room, three lights, mirror walls. drag the lights, harvest the colors. palettes stay coherent because every swatch is the same light in the same room. meodai.github.io/ray-color/ let me know what you think.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

this started with my hue lights: every time I changed the room color, the tennis ball on the table turned into a completely new palette. same ball, new colors. so I built the room, a tiny raytracer where you don't pick colors, you place lights and sample them off a sphere 🎾💡

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

generative color palette idea: instead of editing colors, you edit the conditions they exist in. sample points from a raytraced scene. Move a light and the whole palette shifts together. coherence for free.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Now we are taking!!! color-space.io#ba9588

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 21/07/2026

very cool 🤘🏻💀

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

pro-color-harmonies v0.11.0! ▸ opt-in gamut mapping ▸ grey input → proper neutral ramps ▸ smooth Bezold-Brücke + Abney hue drift in tints & shades ▸ demo accepts wide-gamut colors thanks to @argyleink.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy's <color-input> meodai.github.io/pro-color-ha...

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Pro Color Harmonies – OKLCH palette generator

Generate perceptually-tuned color palettes from a single color: six harmony types, four styles, wave modifiers, and wide-gamut input.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

my color-names list has 30k+ names but they cluster where humans look: reds, colors found in nature, pastels. so I made the opposite: colornames-oklab: 4444 names blue-noise sampled over OKLab, covering all of Rec2020. every region gets a name: meodai.github.io/colornames-o...

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

meodai.github.io

Pro Color Harmonies – OKLCH palette generator

Generate perceptually-tuned color palettes from a single color: six harmony types, four styles, wave modifiers, and wide-gamut input.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

color-name-list@14.46.0 At ~30,000 color names, maintaining the list is less about making it bigger and more about making it better. This release focuses on removing duplicates, improving consistency, retiring weaker entries, and adding stronger new ones. Suggestions and PRs are always welcome.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I find this a very intuitive way to work on a palette

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

working on a new palette generator / editor

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