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.

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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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(I have to clarify here, bear with me)

Unless we are talking about UI status indicators, online or IRL (like a vacancy indicator, no text). The red and greens in your palette are very appealing but nearly impossible for me to distinguish from each other (not exaggerating, they appear the nearly identical) due to the color contrast.

For example, if you were to use this palette and NEEDED to use red/green as indicators, best practice would be to supplement with shape, text, texture to provide non-color-based visual indication to distinguish between them. This method would not compromise the experience of any user.

I have never had scenario where there is a color indicator I can't distinguish, but is designed for me to be able to customize to my ability.

That said, I like this concept of color inspired by watercolor. I'm probably going to use it! Most use cases this is not a concern at all.

Thanks for hearing me, I really appreciate your work and thoughts 🖖

making colors more accessible to one type of user can make them less accessible to another type of user... as a result you end up choosing compromises that are worse for everyone

it's better to design separate color schemes and let users choose the one that fits their ability/preferences