kepano
@kepano
Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper. This is a continuation of my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. Flexoki 1.0 only provided the a range of values for the grayscale colors. What I have been working to solve since then is how to expand the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect. I'm very happy with how this turned out. Flexoki is open source under the MIT license, and already available for most text editors, terminals, and many other apps. Flexoki 2.0 makes it into a more capable color system for UIs and more complex projects. stephango.com/flexoki
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kepano
@kepano
The problem is that using opacity to lighten a color makes it appear washed out. Flexoki emulates the feeling of pigment on paper by exponentially increasing intensity as colors get lighter or darker. This makes the colors feel vibrant and warm, rather than washed out.
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Taylor Sizemore
@taylorsizemore.eth
Really beautiful but I would advise that the red green contrast is much too low when considering colorblind (red/green) accessibility... Yet still pretty! The only instances where it presents a problem is information hierarchy or indicators. Light dark contrast and shape are much more helpful in any palette anyway.
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Nicolaus
@nicolaus
I learned, and loved the LAB color gamut when I was in college for print. Similarly, flexography was one of the more fun printing processes I got to work with. Really digging those connections, and I love the thought you've put into this color system. As someone who has spent many hours building color palettes and color ramps manually, I can see how much love and labor has gone into this. Bravo. (PS added to my Figma resource files)
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JAKE
@jake
Good colors
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phil
@phil
Thank you for doing this. I reach for Flexoki often.
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zoo
@zoo
tres beau
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↑Dom
@onchaindom.eth
This is awesome. Really shows in the high value yellows and low value violets. /someone-build a paper FC client with this
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