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		kazinator 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 12-bit rainbow palette By LCH, is she referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space#Cylindrical... I've not paid much attention to this aspect of CIELAB, but, oh, I see; if you go clockwise around the rectilinear representation you do get rainbow order.

curtisf 3 months ago | [–]

Or oklch:

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg...

kazinator 3 months ago | | [–]

Oh, thanks for that; OKLAB is something quite new, by one Björn Ottosson.

mcdeltat 3 months ago | [–]

Must be because most other colour spaces are not very perceptually uniform. I initially thought a variety of HSL but that is definitely not uniform.

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