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Chroma
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neilpanchal / Chroma

Chroma

Chroma is color conversion library for Processing.

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
95GitHub stars
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Chroma is color conversion library for Processing.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-10-16 19:36:05 UTC to 2020-06-04 22:15:38 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I built similar perceptually uniform color library: https://github.com/neilpanchal/Chroma The sad part is that we have all these colors available in the physical world but representing in sRGB (or even Adobe RGB or DCI P3) space takes away all the fun. We have a narrow space to work within and it poses limits to what you can do. Vast majority of monitors in the world are barely capable of representing sRGB space, and even if they are, calibration is another issue. You can employ all kinds of science in representing proper colors but if the end user's calibration is not good, all bets are off. Colors are a problem for interface design (and accessibility), it becomes a real challenge when dealing with quantitative data and build perceptually uniform colormaps with accessibility considerations, here is an amazing presentation of Matplotlib's
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In Designing Accessible Color Systems
I wrote a Processing library [1] that allows you to select perceptually inform colors in any range (but remember there are holes where normal sRGB monitors cannot fill, see the API docs [2]). If you haven’t heard of Processing, check it out! [3]; it is a generative graphics tool with an Arduino-like interface and IDE. [1] https://github.com/neilpanchal/Chroma [2] https://github.com/neilpanchal/Chroma/blob/master/README.md [3] https://processing.org/
In How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)

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