Notes
A devlog on tuning Seoulnight: one decision per note, with the measurements that backed it
Notes run newest first. If a color changed value anywhere in the scheme, the measurement that justified it is written down here, along with the corner of the city it was borrowed from.
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Release notes, version 1.0
Version 1.0 is the freeze. After eighteen months of tuning, the eight colors are now fixed, and any future change must land with a note in this log...
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The roundel legend
Every color scheme site faces the same layout problem: how do you present eight colors so that a stranger can hold them in their head? A flat row...
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Hangul in the margins
Seoulnight ships with Korean labels next to its color names, and the site you are reading sets its masthead in Hangul. That decision came with typographic homework. Hangul...
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Tuning the neon
The keyword color was sampled from a photograph of a sign tube in Euljiro, and the raw sample was unusable. Real neon pushes past what a code editor...
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Naming colors after the city
Early builds of the scheme named colors the way most themes do: blue1, magenta, comment-gray. The values were fine, but every tuning session started with a lookup. Which...
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Why the background is not black
The first draft of Seoulnight used a pure black background, and it lasted exactly one night. On an OLED panel in a dark room, saturated glyphs on true...