“n Shades of Colour” exists because I’m tired of creating colour scales that do not look right when created automatically & therefore curating manual colour palettes.
Scaling colours by temperature
Most colour tools are pure math, usually calculating every step by increasing or decreasing the same hue to a different brightness.
But real light & therefore colours don’t behave like that. A warm colour feels different than a cold one. This can’t be achieved by simply adjusting brightness.
Slide the Light temparature to “Cool” to get cooler highlights & warmer shadows, slide it to “Warm” to get warmer highlights & cooler shadows. The given base colour always sits at the midpoint, unchanged.
Everything else is determined by the tool.
“n Shades of Colour” measures perceptual distance between steps (using OKLab) & redistributes them so the shades appear as evenly spaced as possible to the human eye.