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Choose an input
Start with one color, then try the same relationship on warm, cool, light, dark, and neutral inputs.
A spatial color recipe workbench
Design the pattern
behind the palette.
Build a small transformation recipe around an input color. Then test the same idea everywhere and see whether it still holds together.
02
Shape the recipe
Stack named transformations for lightness, hue, chroma, and spacing. Move the steps, not individual swatches.
03
See it in space
Inspect the path through OKLCH and learn what your relationship is doing before you export the result.
The useful distinction
A palette is the output. The recipe is the thing worth keeping.
Input color
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Lightness spread
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Hue arc + chroma shape
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Palette for this input