Marcelo Paiva

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Who does Lorem Ipsum leave out?

Writing — read the piece

Meant to show
A screen reader user in a research session, listening to a prototype that has nothing in it to hear.
Asked for
A man at a laptop wearing headphones, listening intently to a prototype of gray placeholder blocks, notebook untouched beside him
Drawn with (triad)
#8e2d36#4bc84f#4046bd

Why these three

Three points spaced evenly around the wheel — the furthest apart three hues can be.

  1. SeedSHA-256 of who-does-lorem-ipsum-leave-out, which is the same every time and different for every piece.
  2. Base hueThe first two bytes as a fraction of 65,535, times 360 = 2°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks triad, which adds 0°, 120°, 240°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — −7.8°, +0.3°, −4.8° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#8e2d36354° at 68% saturation, 55% value#4bc84f122° at 62% saturation, 78% value#4046bd237° at 66% saturation, 74% value

Saturation never drops below 72% and value never below 78%, which is what keeps a hue reading as the color it was chosen to be rather than as a dark. More on how these are made.