David Aerne

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A wooden desk with a computer monitor, laptop, keyboard, mouse, and other items. The screen saver is the Poline visualizer linked in the OP.

Done and it looks SICK

poline-orbits.color.pizza

Its a 100% curated.

Nah I’m the color fairy

If you compose on a keyboard using its synthesis engine, you’re generating something.

If you press “demo song,” you’re triggering a pre-recorded track.

That doesn’t make you the author of the song.

If a system computes palettes from a formula and caches results, that’s still generative. Algorithm → output. Shipping a fixed, finite curated list is a different mechanism.

It is hard.

github.com/1612elphi/de... <3 <3 <3

I just wanted to back what I was saying :D

Just discovered that "Palette Genny" is using the Color Name project 🥹

There’s something incredibly satisfying about seeing your weird color obsession quietly power other tools on the internet.

tools.rmv.fyi/tools/palett...

they also have a section that they marked as user created palettes, maybe it refers to that part. (They are not part of the "generator")

Poline — Esoteric Color Palette Generation Library poline is lightweight, dependency free and fast JavaScript function written in TypeScript. It draws lines between anchors over polar coordinates to generate pleasing color palettes.

meodai.github.io/poline/
okpalette.color.pizza
meodai.github.io/pro-color-ha...
meodai.github.io/rampensau/
farbvelo.elastiq.ch
etc..

...So when something that’s essentially a curated gallery with random navigation is marketed as a “generator,” that distinction matters to me.

This isn’t about copyright/exclusivity. It’s about how the tool is framed.

Ive spent the last decade building color generation systems, tools where palettes are derived from rules, constraints and parameters you control..

The code ships ~2,119 predefined palettes.
That’s curation with random access.
To me, “generator” implies a different sense of authorship.

There are ~16 million sRGB colors.

For a 5-color palette that’s 16million⁵ palettes.

Even if only a tiny fraction “looks good” that’s still an astronomically large space.

A piano has 88 keys. How many 20-note melodies that sound good are possible?

Finite ≠ exhausted.

totally

bsky.app/profile/meod...

...Picking from a pre-made list isn't "generating" beauty; it's just a digital catalog.

Your argument is a bit like saying "there are only 88 keys on a piano, so why not just list every possible song?" The "generation" isn't about inventing a new note; it’s about the infinite ways you can arrange them. A pre-made list is just a jukebox, not a composer. 🎹

You’re misunderstanding. It has nothing to do with UV light or breaking RGB. It’s about the math of harmony. There are ~16.7M sRGB colors. For a 5-color palette, there are (1.6 × 10^7)^5 possible combinations. Randomly hitting a set that actually works is a literal lottery.

Finite state spaces don’t eliminate generativity.

An algorithm mapping parameters to outputs is not the same as indexing into a predefined list.

You could also just check out the libraries I wrote most will help you to generate colors that work well together

So why not a) be transparent about it and b) credit the author/artist? bsky.app/profile/meod...

bsky.app/profile/meod...

"CSS Only Dropbox Colour Palette Hover Effect" by Benedict Forrest

codepen.io/BenedictForr...

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Just ported @ryanfeigenbaum.com's amazing color logic into a standalone, MIT-licensed library. Perceptually uniform palettes for your next generative art or design project. 🎨 meodai.github.io/pro-color-ha...

What I choose to get out of that wonderfully strange interaction, is that I am the tooth fairy of color generation. (makes me feel better then: crusher of dreams)