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He cited color theory. Isn't color theory made up of an arbitrary choice of three colors? Additionally the color spectrum is one dimensional because it's really

He cited color theory. Isn't color theory made up of an arbitrary choice of three colors? Additionally the color spectrum is one dimensional because it's really just frequency of light. Geometric symmetry on an arbitrary mapping of the actual one dimensional concept of color to a two dimensional plane doesn't really "improve" anything. If you like it, you like it because of your opinion, please don't cite any pseudo science to make your case.

syspec 7y ago
If you use Intelli-J IDE's you should check out https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui "Dracula Pro" looks a lot like this with a different font (which is also an option in Material Theme)
- syspec 7y ago
  oops, didn't mean to post as a reply
contravariant 7y ago
It's slightly more than just frequency. Magenta colours don't show up in the spectrum for instance. But yeah it's basically just hue, saturation and brightness. And your choice of colourspace is more or less arbitrary although there's been quite a bit of research on what colours humans consider to be 'close' or 'equally bright' and even which combinations are 'pleasing' but that last one is hard to make precise.
rckoepke 7y ago
"Color theory" can describe pretty much anything working with color. I asked the developer of Dracula some technical questions last time this got traction on HN but didn't receive any responses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306449 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306449 My guess is that instead of spacing things out equally by RGB , (e.g. [0,0,0]...[128,128,128]...[255,255,255]) they may be using another "colorspace" like HCL or Lab, where there are still three values that signify each color, but the vectors are complex instead of just "Red", "Green", and "Blue". See http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard/ http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard/
zem 7y ago
the colour spectrum is not one dimensional because it is determined both by the frequency of light and by the response of each of the different cones in our eyes to it. I have no opinion on the claims made by the article either way, I just wanted to point out that just because the frequency of light had a single dimension, it did not follow that there was a single colour axis.

syspec 7y ago

If you use Intelli-J IDE's you should check out https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui "Dracula Pro" looks a lot like this with a different font (which is also an option in Material Theme)

syspec 7y ago
oops, didn't mean to post as a reply

contravariant 7y ago

It's slightly more than just frequency. Magenta colours don't show up in the spectrum for instance. But yeah it's basically just hue, saturation and brightness. And your choice of colourspace is more or less arbitrary although there's been quite a bit of research on what colours humans consider to be 'close' or 'equally bright' and even which combinations are 'pleasing' but that last one is hard to make precise.

rckoepke 7y ago

"Color theory" can describe pretty much anything working with color. I asked the developer of Dracula some technical questions last time this got traction on HN but didn't receive any responses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306449 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306449 My guess is that instead of spacing things out equally by RGB , (e.g. [0,0,0]...[128,128,128]...[255,255,255]) they may be using another "colorspace" like HCL or Lab, where there are still three values that signify each color, but the vectors are complex instead of just "Red", "Green", and "Blue". See http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard/ http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard/

zem 7y ago

the colour spectrum is not one dimensional because it is determined both by the frequency of light and by the response of each of the different cones in our eyes to it. I have no opinion on the claims made by the article either way, I just wanted to point out that just because the frequency of light had a single dimension, it did not follow that there was a single colour axis.