Links in dark mode were way over-emphasized.
I wanted to use the same color pallette, all derived from my profile picture, in both light and dark mode, but this never worked that well, and only really mattered for people who flipped between them, a list that I’m pretty sure only ever included me.
We have a purple that works pretty closely in dark mode to how the mint works in light mode. Why not use that?
I kept the monogram color the same as before, but changed everything else.
Light mode reference
Burton shared [John] Payne's enthusiasm for archaic and forgotten words. The style Burton achieved can be described as a sort of composite mock-Gothic, combining elements from Middle English, the Authorized Version of the Bible and Jacobean drama. Most modern readers will also find Burton's Victorian vulgarisms jarring, for example ‘regular Joe Millers’, ‘Charleys’, and ‘red cent’. Burton's translation of the Nights can certainly be recommended to anyone wishing to increase their word-power: ‘chevisance’, ‘fortalice’, ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘wittol’, ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and so on. ‘Whilome’ and ‘anent’ are standard in Burton's vocabulary. The range of vocabulary is wider and stranger than Payne's, lurching between the erudite and the plain earthy, so that Harun al-Rashid and Sinbad walk and talk in a linguistic Never Never Land.
Dark mode, before
Burton shared [John] Payne's enthusiasm for archaic and forgotten words. The style Burton achieved can be described as a sort of composite mock-Gothic, combining elements from Middle English, the Authorized Version of the Bible and Jacobean drama. Most modern readers will also find Burton's Victorian vulgarisms jarring, for example ‘regular Joe Millers’, ‘Charleys’, and ‘red cent’. Burton's translation of the Nights can certainly be recommended to anyone wishing to increase their word-power: ‘chevisance’, ‘fortalice’, ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘wittol’, ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and so on. ‘Whilome’ and ‘anent’ are standard in Burton's vocabulary. The range of vocabulary is wider and stranger than Payne's, lurching between the erudite and the plain earthy, so that Harun al-Rashid and Sinbad walk and talk in a linguistic Never Never Land.
Proposal 1: 35% mix toward background
Burton shared [John] Payne's enthusiasm for archaic and forgotten words. The style Burton achieved can be described as a sort of composite mock-Gothic, combining elements from Middle English, the Authorized Version of the Bible and Jacobean drama. Most modern readers will also find Burton's Victorian vulgarisms jarring, for example ‘regular Joe Millers’, ‘Charleys’, and ‘red cent’. Burton's translation of the Nights can certainly be recommended to anyone wishing to increase their word-power: ‘chevisance’, ‘fortalice’, ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘wittol’, ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and so on. ‘Whilome’ and ‘anent’ are standard in Burton's vocabulary. The range of vocabulary is wider and stranger than Payne's, lurching between the erudite and the plain earthy, so that Harun al-Rashid and Sinbad walk and talk in a linguistic Never Never Land.
| Underline | Ratio vs. background | |
|---|---|---|
| Light | --color-micahrl-mint | 1.35:1 |
| Before | --color-micahrl-dark-mint | 3.37:1 |
| After | 35% mix toward background | 1.49:1 |
Proposal 2: unchanged foreground on hover
Burton shared [John] Payne's enthusiasm for archaic and forgotten words. The style Burton achieved can be described as a sort of composite mock-Gothic, combining elements from Middle English, the Authorized Version of the Bible and Jacobean drama. Most modern readers will also find Burton's Victorian vulgarisms jarring, for example ‘regular Joe Millers’, ‘Charleys’, and ‘red cent’. Burton's translation of the Nights can certainly be recommended to anyone wishing to increase their word-power: ‘chevisance’, ‘fortalice’, ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘wittol’, ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and so on. ‘Whilome’ and ‘anent’ are standard in Burton's vocabulary. The range of vocabulary is wider and stranger than Payne's, lurching between the erudite and the plain earthy, so that Harun al-Rashid and Sinbad walk and talk in a linguistic Never Never Land.
| Fill | Text | Text → fill | Fill → page bg | Text → page bg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light | --color-micahrl-mint | unchanged fg | 12.83:1 | 1.35:1 | 17.32:1 |
| Before | --color-micahrl-dark-mint | page background | 3.37:1 | 3.37:1 | 7.54:1 |
| After | hsl(120, 31%, 21%) | unchanged fg | 4.89:1 | 1.54:1 | 7.54:1 |
Proposal 3: same split as light mode, one color
Burton shared [John] Payne's enthusiasm for archaic and forgotten words. The style Burton achieved can be described as a sort of composite mock-Gothic, combining elements from Middle English, the Authorized Version of the Bible and Jacobean drama. Most modern readers will also find Burton's Victorian vulgarisms jarring, for example ‘regular Joe Millers’, ‘Charleys’, and ‘red cent’. Burton's translation of the Nights can certainly be recommended to anyone wishing to increase their word-power: ‘chevisance’, ‘fortalice’, ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘wittol’, ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and so on. ‘Whilome’ and ‘anent’ are standard in Burton's vocabulary. The range of vocabulary is wider and stranger than Payne's, lurching between the erudite and the plain earthy, so that Harun al-Rashid and Sinbad walk and talk in a linguistic Never Never Land.
| Fill | Text | Text → fill | Fill → page bg | Text → page bg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light | --color-micahrl-mint | unchanged fg | 12.83:1 | 1.35:1 | 17.32:1 |
| Proposal 2 | hsl(120, 31%, 21%) | unchanged fg | 4.89:1 | 1.54:1 | 7.54:1 |
| Proposal 3 | hsl(120, 31%, 16%) | unchanged fg | 6.13:1 | 1.23:1 | 7.54:1 |
| Text → fill share of total | |
|---|---|
| Light | 89.5% |
| Proposal 2 | 78.6% |
| Proposal 3 | 89.7% |
Proposal 4: proposal 3 at full chroma
Burton shared [John] Payne's enthusiasm for archaic and forgotten words. The style Burton achieved can be described as a sort of composite mock-Gothic, combining elements from Middle English, the Authorized Version of the Bible and Jacobean drama. Most modern readers will also find Burton's Victorian vulgarisms jarring, for example ‘regular Joe Millers’, ‘Charleys’, and ‘red cent’. Burton's translation of the Nights can certainly be recommended to anyone wishing to increase their word-power: ‘chevisance’, ‘fortalice’, ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘wittol’, ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and so on. ‘Whilome’ and ‘anent’ are standard in Burton's vocabulary. The range of vocabulary is wider and stranger than Payne's, lurching between the erudite and the plain earthy, so that Harun al-Rashid and Sinbad walk and talk in a linguistic Never Never Land.
| Fill | Chroma (okC) | vs. mint | Share of max chroma at its lightness | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light | --color-micahrl-mint | 0.099 | 100% | 36% |
| Proposal 2 | hsl(120, 31%, 21%) | 0.068 | 69% | 58% |
| Proposal 3 | hsl(120, 31%, 16%) | 0.055 | 55% | 56% |
| Proposal 4 | oklch(0.30 0.095 144.2) | 0.095 | 96% | 98% |
| Text → fill | Fill → page bg | Text → page bg | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light | 12.83:1 | 1.35:1 | 17.32:1 | 89.5% |
| Proposal 3 | 6.13:1 | 1.23:1 | 7.54:1 | 89.7% |
| Proposal 4 | 6.10:1 | 1.24:1 | 7.54:1 | 89.4% |
Proposal 5: the palette purple, untuned
Burton shared [John] Payne's enthusiasm for archaic and forgotten words. The style Burton achieved can be described as a sort of composite mock-Gothic, combining elements from Middle English, the Authorized Version of the Bible and Jacobean drama. Most modern readers will also find Burton's Victorian vulgarisms jarring, for example ‘regular Joe Millers’, ‘Charleys’, and ‘red cent’. Burton's translation of the Nights can certainly be recommended to anyone wishing to increase their word-power: ‘chevisance’, ‘fortalice’, ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘wittol’, ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and so on. ‘Whilome’ and ‘anent’ are standard in Burton's vocabulary. The range of vocabulary is wider and stranger than Payne's, lurching between the erudite and the plain earthy, so that Harun al-Rashid and Sinbad walk and talk in a linguistic Never Never Land.
| Fill | Chroma (okC) | vs. mint | Fill → page bg | Text → fill | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light | --color-micahrl-mint | 0.099 | 100% | 1.35:1 | 12.83:1 | 89.5% |
| Dark mint, untuned | --color-micahrl-dark-mint | 0.049 | 49% | 3.37:1 | 2.24:1 | 40% |
| Light purple, untuned | --color-micahrl-light-purple | 0.081 | 82% | 8.82:1 | 1.17:1 | 8% |
| Proposal 5 | --color-micahrl-dark-purple | 0.085 | 86% | 1.62:1 | 4.66:1 | 76% |
Proposal 6: same placement as proposal 4, purple hue
Same ratios to foreground/background as light mode with a new purple color.
Burton shared [John] Payne's enthusiasm for archaic and forgotten words. The style Burton achieved can be described as a sort of composite mock-Gothic, combining elements from Middle English, the Authorized Version of the Bible and Jacobean drama. Most modern readers will also find Burton's Victorian vulgarisms jarring, for example ‘regular Joe Millers’, ‘Charleys’, and ‘red cent’. Burton's translation of the Nights can certainly be recommended to anyone wishing to increase their word-power: ‘chevisance’, ‘fortalice’, ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘wittol’, ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and so on. ‘Whilome’ and ‘anent’ are standard in Burton's vocabulary. The range of vocabulary is wider and stranger than Payne's, lurching between the erudite and the plain earthy, so that Harun al-Rashid and Sinbad walk and talk in a linguistic Never Never Land.
| Fill | Hue | Chroma (okC) | vs. mint | Share of max chroma at its lightness | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light mint | --color-micahrl-mint | 144.2 | 0.099 | 100% | 36% |
| Proposal 4 | oklch(0.30 0.095 144.2) | 144.2 | 0.095 | 96% | 98% |
| Proposal 5 | --color-micahrl-dark-purple | 333.1 | 0.085 | 86% | — |
| Proposal 6 | oklch(0.32 0.099 290) | 290.0 | 0.099 | 100% | 55% |
| Text → fill | Fill → page bg | Text → page bg | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light | 12.83:1 | 1.35:1 | 17.32:1 | 89.5% |
| Proposal 4 | 6.10:1 | 1.24:1 | 7.54:1 | 89.4% |
| Proposal 5 | 4.66:1 | 1.62:1 | 7.54:1 | 76.0% |
| Proposal 6 | 6.10:1 | 1.24:1 | 7.54:1 | 89.4% |
| Hue | Max chroma at this placement | vs. mint |
|---|---|---|
| 144.2 (mint) | 0.097 | 98% |
| 333.1 (dark purple) | 0.148 | 150% |
| 290.0 (light purple) | 0.189 | 191% |