An OKLCH-based perceptually uniform color system/theme builder

What it does

Perceptually uniform color palette generator.

In the maker’s words, at launch

I've been using a version of this internally for a few months but decided to polish it a little to finally deploy it. It's a color system generator that creates accessible, perceptually uniform color palettes using the OKLCH space. It takes one seed (primary) color, generates relative key colors from multiple color…

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