David Aerne

@meodai.color.pizza

Self-employed Design & Interaction Developer at Elastiq Ltd. Independent researcher exploring color perception, palette tools, and interface design through prototyping.

So I just adopted a color, its a fun neat little way of supporting a web develop and designer in Zürich. Its only 10$ and if you ever use his API, this fox's name shows up in the color for Blackcurrant. This is genuinely neat, none of that NFT shit, just neat :) names.color.pizza/color/blackc...

Blackcurrant

Dark fruit, almost black but not quite. The blackcurrant, black currant or cassis is a deciduous shrub in the family Grossulariaceae grown for its edible…

names.color.pizza

I still have time to take on more projects in December, February and onwards! so if you were thinking of commissioning a logo or other graphic before the planned 20% price increase, please reach out before November 1st! Let's design something cool together 🙂

Andriy Lukin@andriylukin.bsky.social · 2w ago

hi all, I'm open to take on more design work! 👋 whether you wish to elevate your project with a custom-made logotype or need a stylish design to compliment your art, I'd like to help you with that! here's a selection of my works, for more examples and info please come visit andriylukin.com ✌️

wrote a response to @debbieohi.com’s blog post about DIY watercolor kits :) if you have one too, don’t be shy ! let’s see it ⭐️ brookie.blog/i-love-makin... #artsky #watercolor #blogsky

i love making DIY watercolor palettes too.

there’s just something about a little compact kit that’s easy to take with me. (even though i haven’t taken one with me in a while)

brookie.blog

Debbie Ridpath Ohi@debbieohi.com · 3w ago

#OneThingIveLearned: Making DIY travel art kits is fun! Plus super-handy for when you're supposed to do a live drawing demo at the New York Times office & your regular art supplies never arrived (!). #KidLit #ArtSky

Only 2 spots left for founding patrons of names.color.pizza Thank you so much for all the support. I'm honestly overwhelmed by the response and so happy that my idea of asking people to help fund the infrastructure behind my open-source work turned out to be a good one. ❤️ THANK YOU!

Seeing Oklab enjoyed and used by so many is mind-boggling! I still can’t quite comprehend that I wrote a blog post that ended up as a web standard and in software everywhere. Best part is seeing so many people say they enjoy Oklab and that it is a tool they regularly use.

Xor@xordev.com · 5d ago

If you need a random color (e.g. procedurally coloring objects), you should use Oklab or Oklch color space instead of RGB or HSV. RGB may span the whole spectrum, but it does not pick fairly (leaning dark/muddy). Oklab is designed to more closely map to how we perceive color

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run