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Aargh, it's kinda pretty and I want to like it, but it really bugs me that these colors don't actually match their descriptions. It feels like an "arctic" color
by semi-extrinsic 8y ago
Aargh, it's kinda pretty and I want to like it, but it really bugs me that these colors don't actually match their descriptions. It feels like an "arctic" color map made by people who have mainly seen the far north on Instagram.
Especially the "Aurora" palette, which is made up mostly of colors that are extremely rare to see in auroras. But also the light and dark palettes without any blue in them are way off, and the description of arctic ice as green-ish is weird.
Also the visual contrast between e.g. nord7 and nord8 is extremely poor.
- e12e 8y agoNot sure why you're down-voted - that was my initial reaction too. Especially the "aurora" palette seems at odds with the name. Add a red and a purple to the "frost"-palette, and you might at least call it "aurora" with a straight face. That said, I'm not sure pastels like these would ever capture an "artic" feel. Overall, apart from the lack of contrast, they're not half-bad. But the naming doesn't seem to reflect the colors - it seems rather arbitrary.