Design Research
Charcuterie 2026
Exploring embeddings by building a visual explorer for discovering Unicode characters, scripts, symbols, and related glyphs.
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Heerich 2026
A lightweight engine for building 3D voxel scenes and rendering them as SVG.
PickyPalette 2026
An interactive color picker where palettes are sculpted directly on a color model using perceptual distance.
OKpalette 2026
A palette extractor that picks image colors in OKLCh with harmony-aware, perceptual selection.
DittoTones 2025
Transforms a single color into a full palette by copying the perceptual structure of existing design systems.
Pro Color Harmonies 2025
A TypeScript library for generating perceptually tuned OKLCh color harmonies and palette variations.
Poline Orbits 2025
A circular playground for exploring palettes and color relationships with the Poline engine.
Color Router 2025
A reactive TypeScript color system that treats palettes like spreadsheets with references, functions, and cascading updates.
Verloop — Dégradé 2024
A large-format book featuring generative gradients created with Rik Oostenbroek, exploring where handcrafted color transitions meet algorithmic composition. Featured at Paris Photo 2024.
RYBitten 2024
A color conversion library for translating between RGB and Itten-inspired RYB color spaces.
Albers 2023
A generative study of color interaction inspired by Josef Albers and the square.
Poline 2023
A micro-library for generating color palettes by interpolating HSL in cartesian space.
Color Name API 2022
Most Popular color-name REST API returning color names for any given color value.
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Rampensau 2022
Palette generation library using hue cycling and easing functions.
fxHash 2022
A collection of generative art pieces released as on-chain tokens on fxhash.
Color Description 2021
A library that turns technical color values into human-readable color descriptions.
Parrot 2021
The companion site for a collaborative color bot that posts random colors and collects invented names.
Farbvelo 2020
A generative color harmony cycler that moves through hue ranges to build palettes.
Color Names 2017
A curated dataset of more than 30,000 color names collected and invented over the years.
3D Color Name Distribution 2017
Plots the entire color-names collection across multiple 3D color models to reveal where the dataset is dense, sparse, or unevenly distributed.
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