Open andycochran opened 4 years ago
First, a note: In the existing color palette, the darkest colors were established by making them all generally the same luminosity, while also being visually distinct from each other and visually distinct from black. They are already so dark that their use is extremely limited by accessibility.
Here's a first pass at adding an almost-black version to each hue. I took the current dark colors, increased their saturation to 100%, then adjusted their luminosity individually so that they're each not quite black:
One problem with creating these almost-blacks this way is that…
Another method would be to make some hues more black than others, so that so that each hue has a similar visual difference between its dark and almost-black:
This makes all the the almost-blacks a bit more visually distinct from each other. But only the reds/blues are "almost black." The greens/golds aren't as dark.
A HUGE caveat here is that (with either method) these colors are not visually distinct enough and their use will be extremely limited by accessibility.
@daragoldberg points out that it'd be beneficial to have an even darker version of each hue in the color palette.
$[hue]-black
for each hue in the color palette