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This is great! What is the visualization? How did you do the visualization? And where did you get the idea / what was your thinking leading to this really cool

This is great! What is the visualization? How did you do the visualization? And where did you get the idea / what was your thinking leading to this really cool way to do it? I love using web colors. It's basically all I use...I like that they're just there..and also you get "semantic css". It will probably seem a dumb and naive question so I'm sorry, but...Looks like the blacks, whites and greys are compressed in the center, is that an accurate way to put it? Why is it like that? it's your project so it's not my place to tell you what to do, so I'm sorry to ask but would it be a bad idea to give a bit more space to the shades of grey / gray?

arantius 4y ago
Missed this good series of questions for a while but: * The "?" about link says a lot of this. * It was an old idea that somehow solidified recently, after spending enough time with color wheels and other things, to assemble this. * This is initially based on an HSL (hue/saturation/lightness) color wheel arrangement. But several web colors have identical H/S, so I tweaked it to spread those (especially, as you noticed, the greys) out artificially. * One of the things I wanted was to use a "real" (HSL) arrangement, to leave the values arranged visually. Close colors are close on purpose, so e.g. you can see that e.g. "tan" is a little silly, by how small its area is (there's a lot of colors very close to it, crowding it out) as compared to e.g. "crimson" which is large (not many reds, around that hue).