Dispatches / a short note
Colors immune to night shift
A specially made colorscheme, that doesn't bleed or fade even when you use extreme night shift (the "warm" color tint you use).
Ember – Redshift safe color palettes: https://github.com/carpdiem/ember
That’s a… surprisingly deep question. I’m actually a physicist by background first, so I got my start doing waaayyy too many calculations with blackbody and emissions spectra.
Then, back in 2010, when I was just getting into startups, I spent two weeks straight at Powell’s in Portland reading through their graphic design section.
After that, I never got very far away from light or perception… AR/VR -> graphics -> silicon photonics -> physical AI (now).
I’m still very much learning, but if you like this stuff and want to learn more yourself there’s a couple sources I can recommend:
- Interaction of Color, by Josef Albers. Amazing book, but you really want to get a physical copy.
- I really like this talk from SciPy 2015 to get a sense of how people work with and talk about color maps in practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
- This is a really, really thorough (and beautifully illustrated) article on what color spaces are: https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/color-spaces-models-and-gamuts
- And last, I wrote a very technical blog post a few years back, if you want to see some math on a bunch of this: https://www.usuallypragmatic.com/projects/Generating-Color-Temperature-Equivalent-Light-with-RGB-LEDs.html
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307601