Design Research
CuspHanger 2026
Generates sequential and diverging OKLCH palettes from a few intuitive parameters, tracing a Bézier curve through the gamut triangle sampled at perceptual lightness steps.
nutelch 2026
A color utility that measures chroma relative to the gamut boundary, so saturation means the same thing at every lightness and hue and never lands out of gamut.
Color Names Timeline 2026
An animated point cloud of the color-names dataset that replays nine years of contributions commit by commit, morphing between RGB, OKLab, spectral, and hue-wheel layouts.
Design Book 2026
A reactive engine for design systems that stores the rules behind decisions rather than fixed values, recomputing dependent tokens when inputs change.
Charcuterie 2026
Exploring embeddings by building a visual explorer for discovering Unicode characters, scripts, symbols, and related glyphs.
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Heerich 2026
A lightweight engine for building 3D voxel scenes and rendering them as SVG.
Color Palette Shader 2026
A WebGL shader that renders smooth, animated color palettes and gradients directly on the GPU.
PickyPalette 2026
An interactive color picker where palettes are sculpted directly on a color model using perceptual distance.
OKpalette 2026
A palette extractor that picks image colors in OKLCh with harmony-aware, perceptual selection.
DittoTones 2025
Transforms a single color into a full palette by copying the perceptual structure of existing design systems.
Pro Color Harmonies 2025
A TypeScript library for generating perceptually tuned OKLCh color harmonies and palette variations.
Poline Orbits 2025
A circular playground for exploring palettes and color relationships with the Poline engine.
Color Router 2025
A reactive TypeScript color system that treats palettes like spreadsheets with references, functions, and cascading updates.
Verloop — Dégradé 2024
A large-format book featuring generative gradients created with Rik Oostenbroek, exploring where handcrafted color transitions meet algorithmic composition. Featured at Paris Photo 2024.
RYBitten 2024
A color conversion library for translating between RGB and Itten-inspired RYB color spaces.
Albers 2023
A generative study of color interaction inspired by Josef Albers and the square.
Poline 2023
A micro-library for generating color palettes by interpolating HSL in cartesian space.
Color Name API 2022
Most Popular color-name REST API returning color names for any given color value.
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Rampensau 2022
Palette generation library using hue cycling and easing functions.
fxHash 2022
A collection of generative art pieces released as on-chain tokens on fxhash.
Color Description 2021
A library that turns technical color values into human-readable color descriptions.
Parrot 2021
The companion site for a collaborative color bot that posts random colors and collects invented names.
Farbvelo 2020
A generative color harmony cycler that moves through hue ranges to build palettes.
Color Names 2017
A curated dataset of more than 30,000 color names collected and invented over the years.
3D Color Name Distribution 2017
Plots the entire color-names collection across multiple 3D color models to reveal where the dataset is dense, sparse, or unevenly distributed.
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