Hard to tell if this is auto generated but I'd guess so. There's a somewhat egregious error. In the Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect section the site states"
"The illusion where increased saturation (or chroma) of a color is perceived as an increase in the color's lightness."
But that is notably wrong. Lightness is a tonal metric (closer to white, more lightness) and is defined as such on that site as well.
In the H-K effect, emitted light of greater saturation (less lightness) is perceived as higher luminance (brighter) than emitted light of greater lightness.
A more accurate statement would be "The effect whereby colors of greater saturation than, but equal luminance to, a less saturated reference color are perceived to be of greater luminance that the reference color." (I'm sure that could be tightened up.)
There is some conflation here between an art definition and the colorimetric definition. In colorimetry:
Luminance is a spectrally weighted measure of physical light, it is not a perception, and luminance is linear to physical light.
Lightness is the perception of luminance, along with darkness and brightness. In colorimetry, the term lightness is used to distinguish the perception of light (which is nonlinear to physical light) as opposed to luminance which is a linear measure of physical light.
Luminance is denoted Y (relative) or L (absolute), Perceptual lightness is L* (Lstar) or J, brightness as Q (in most models).
As you noted, the term lightness can also be used as a tonal metric (i.e. in art). However in colorimetry, the closeness to white, or achromatic, is described as less purity (less chroma or less saturation).
And for the record, the site is not auto-generated. Nate Baldwin created that site. Nate is also the developer behind Adobe Leonardo, the color palette utility.
As for the Helmholtz–Kohlrausch phenomenon, here is the official definition from the CIE - International Commission on Illumination
Change in brightness of perceived colour, produced by increasing the purity of a colour stimulus while keeping its luminance constant within the range of photopic vision
Note 1 to entry: For related colours, a change in lightness can also occur when the purity is increased while keeping the luminance factor of the colour stimulus constant.
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The CIE points out that the change in perceived lightness occurs with increased saturation (purity).
I spoke to Cal for this article though I don't think he used much of our interview. I developed GTD software back in the first as Kinkless when became OmniFocus after I joined Omni for a year.
Today I don't use any "super specialized" tooling for task management. Intentionally. I don't like being wedded to any given app. My tools are Apple Reminders (universal for my family since we're all on Apple devices) and Obsidian (or really just plain text / markdown, accessed currently through obsidian).
Lots of thoughts about all this but in short there were some good ideas I took from GTD (universal capture being the biggest, but that's not really a GTD unique idea) but most of it I've jettisoned.
(my obsidian / markdown usage is basically "take notes, sometimes notes become projects, those projects automatically show up in a dashboard" and mixing notes, content, and tasks organically)
I'd love to see a blog post about your apple reminders/obsidian setup (or whatever details you'd be willing to provide). I'm currently trying to get an apple reminders + obsidian setup up and running myself!
This leak feels like a trial balloon (sanctioned or not). I suspect there is enough "hmm is this a good idea" and pushback within wotc that this is a way to gauge how terrible of an idea this really is (it is terrible and would burn the brand down).
Developer of Solarized here. Glad that it continues to be a popular design. I've let the github languish and regret that. Luckily since it's just a color scheme the website and info on github has been enough for it to continue to propagate.
There have been plenty of other color schemes that I think it's safe to say have been inspired by Solarized and this is very satisfying to see. Many of them have done a better job at thinking through the git structure of their projects :)
Thanks so much for Solarized. Really changed the way I think about syntax highlighting and UI! Have you run common color/font configurations from Solarized through WCAG’s contrast checking tools? As I create more and more UIs I’ve become increasingly aware of contrast for accessibility and I was wondering what your thoughts were in this regard.
I didn't run Solarized through WCAG when designing it (I don't believe that was around when I was designing it, though I could be wrong) but I did design it to enable high contrast use (this is mentioned on the site but sometimes overlooked in implementations). The highest contrast base tones as background / foreground colors (base03+base3) do pass with a 13.91:1 ratio. In "low contrast" mode, Solarized passes all but WCAG AAA with a value of 4.74:1.
As my eyes age I often use Solarized in higher contrast configuration, so I'm sensitive to this issue.
Two things I want to add (better as a comment than edit):
1) I don't use Solarized everywhere religiously. I use it a LOT, no surprise. Still my preferred color scheme in most editing, terminal, code situations. But I am happy to use other well designed colorschemes in various contexts (writing, task management apps, etc.). Even when Solarized is available, sometimes variety is what's called for.
2) Solarized was designed to enable the colors to be used in high contrast modes as well. As my eyes age I sometimes will apply the colorscheme in a higher contrast mode. This adaptability is sometimes overlooked but it is inherent and intentional to the design.
> Many of them have done a better job at thinking through the git structure of their projects :)
Perhaps so. I've attempted to find some other color scheme. The most significant color scheme change I was able to stomach during the last ten years was from Solarized Dark to Solarized Light. Thank you <3
For those interested in further reading on this and many, many other nuclear weapon safety incidents, I recommend the excellent book "Command and Control" (also a documentary but the book is significantly more comprehensive).
As someone that helped create a relatively popular task management app, I've scaled things wayyyy back personally and now mostly use Apple Reminders and Streaks (Apple ecosystem only so far).
Streaks has a great "don't do this" function for tracking habits. Recommended as a habit/recurrence tracker in general.
I ran Linux on a P50 for years and that unit, which is sitting in front of me right now, is the reason that I won't buy another ThinkPad, ever.
It was the biggest lemon I've ever owned. I've been through multiple mainboards, dozens of repair center calls for battery and power issues (which persist even now).
(Having owned somewhere around a half dozen different ThinkPads, all of them well loved up till the P50, this was a sad end to my support of that platform.)
Lenovo slowly transitioned away from IBM's design over the years. They are now using cheaper plastics and have horrible chassis designs which dig into your wrists due to their non-rounded edges. They're trying to make Thinkpads look more slick while at the same time reducing the cost to manufacture them. IMHO the Thinkpad can no longer be considered a platform which you can safely buy knowing that every component will be fully supported in Linux. Some hardware components are not even working correctly in Windows or are faulty (I'm looking at you Fibocom WWAN modem; see: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T-...). I would happily buy from any other brand if they have a laptop model with a good trackpoint.
I deployed Fleetsmith a couple years ago after evaluating the field. Fewer features than the competition but well designed and clearly improving over time.
Zach Blum (CEO/co-founder) would regularly follow up on issues and tickets himself, always friendly and helpful.
I know transitions like this can be rough but I'm glad to see them achieve this success.
