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Tag: colours

  • Colour wheel diagram showing the transformation from a light blue into a medium purple.

    Styling :visited links using hue-rotation

    My new site theme offers a :visited link style, but for convenience it's based on a CSS hsl-transformation. Here's how it works...

    Read more (223 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 26 September, 2026
  • Build Colors from Colors with CSS Relative Color Syntax

    Caleb Hearth wrote an inspiring piece about CSS's new OKLCH functions, and now I want nothing more than to (re-?)implement something using this colour model!

    Read more - about 3 minutes (500 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 7 November, 2024
  • Image representing post: A History of Automobiles and Colour before the Age of Chromophobia

    A History of Automobiles and Colour before the Age of Chromophobia

    There is a distinct lack of coloration in today’s automobiles, with the majority seemingly finished in a shade that could be found on a greyscale chart. Things are no better in the interior; nearly always black, beige or grey, colours that architectural and couture designers refer to as neutrals. To make matters worse, these shades …

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 8 March, 2019
  • Practical Color Theory for People Who Code

    Practical Color Theory for People Who Code

    Read more - about 1 minutes (7 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 9 May, 2017
  • Face Science: Colourblindness test

    Are You Colorblind?



    Fake Science

    Read more - about 1 minutes (2 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 2 October, 2016
  • A variety of shades of orange.

    Orange

    Which orange came first: the colour or the fruit? Dan answers this chicken-and-egg question, and then muses on the abstract nature of colours in linguistics.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (897 words)

    • Article
    • posted 21 May, 2013
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #14:

    Go to a "Traffic Lights Party" organized by the students union, where you're supposed to dress in a colour that dictates your availability status. Red is "Taken". Yellow is "Maybe available". Green is "Desperate". Wear yellow. Fail to 'pull'.

    The 'cool …

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    • Article
    • posted 10 October, 1999

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