Splash Is a Colour Format (todepond.com)
11 points by tobr 3 days ago
smilekzs 16 minutes ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors
Macromedia Flash taught me this in the early 2000s...
warumdarum an hour ago
Mega Splash is the same format but with a unique curve annotation in the 4th digit. And i just made that up and its nelievsble because all encoding schemes are wonky and are extended on a per usecase basis.
Vvector an hour ago
Isn't this just RGB, with 246 of the 256 values removed from each channel?
Sharlin an hour ago
The point is that quantizing the range makes it easier for humans to choose colors. But there's already the #ABC hex format, which while less intuitive to non-techies has the huge advantage of being well-established.
tptacek an hour ago
My other question here is, are "R", "G", and "B" channels the best way to reason about color? Isn't HSV more intuitive?
cardamomo an hour ago
Or HCL? Or LAB? Any of these are more intuitive than RGB.
mock-possum an hour ago
I feel like I kind of get the spirit that this is done in, but it’s just not for me. Abstracting away from the existing 6 digit hex color codes just seems like extra work, even though it’s presented as ‘simplifying.’ It may just be too late for me - I’ve already learned how to express color sufficiently by mixing 256 levels of R, G, and B - it’s not useful to relearn how to abstract that to mixing 10 levels of the same, in a less exact less prescriptive manner.
I AM genuinely glad this person is having fun with the little world they’re creating, and that they’re bothering to share it.
dudeinjapan an hour ago
The site doesn't explain--what's the actual point of this? If we are seriously concerned about characters (which is generally silly in a gzipped CSS) why not just use 3-char hex like #a5c?
Sharlin an hour ago
Avoiding analysis paralysis, making it more intuitive to manually write colors. But yeah, there doesn't seem to be any advantage over the well-established #ABC format than decimal digits being easier to non-techies.
justinator an hour ago
The point is to prove that one xkcd comic
mock-possum 44 minutes ago
No, TFA does very deliberately and openly explain what the goal/justification is:
> Splash colours can help you avoid decision paralysis when picking colours. It's an emotional tool that stops you fussing around— trying to pick the "perfect" colour … It also means the user can deal with discrete / individual colour values in the drag-and-drop user interface. They don't have to deal with large numbers at all. Only one to nine