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by bjornornorn 1748 days ago
For color picking, I have just released two new color spaces based on Oklab, trying to improve on HSV and HSL. You can try them and compare with other options here: https://bottosson.github.io/misc/colorpicker/
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Looks great!

If I could request some features:

The layout might be better 4-wide (or dynamically reflowing) instead of 3-wide so that typical PC monitors can view all of the controls at once.

Also, I'd love the ability to use Oklab to pick ranges of equal distributions (dark to light), or typical symmetric colour pairings (opposites, or 'n' divisions of a circle, or whatever...)

In the past, I used an app that allowed me to do that with the Munsell colour system, and I found that it worked great. The only annoyance with that was that it was fixed to 10% increments, and had limited symmetry types.

However, despite that, I could pick a colour that was perceptually 2x as saturated (or bright), and then use it for a control that was 1/2 as big as an adjacent one. It made things like almost eerily balanced. I felt like it was the cheat code to artistic web layouts!