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Should a design system have a file written for machines?
Writing — read the piece
- Asked for
- A designer at a desk writing rules on a blank sheet beside an open swatch book of numbered color chips
- Drawn with (complementary)
#3986a9#d85d3c#463e8c
Why these three
Two hues opposite each other, the strongest contrast available, with the third supporting the first.
- SeedSHA-256 of
should-a-design-system-have-a-file-written-for-machines, which is the same every time and different for every piece. - Base hueThe first two bytes as a fraction of 65,535, times 360 = 203°.
- GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks complementary, which adds 0°, 180°, 40°.
- WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — −5.0°, −10.8°, +3.2° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
- Result
#3986a9198° at 66% saturation, 66% value#d85d3c13° at 72% saturation, 85% value#463e8c247° at 56% saturation, 55% value
Saturation never drops below 72% and value never below 78%, which is what keeps a hue reading as the colour it was chosen to be rather than as a dark. More on how these are made.