A generative palette tool built as a playground for exploring color relationships. Define anchor points in perceptual color space and let mathematical interpolation produce palettes you would never construct by hand. The system is designed to foster emergence while keeping you in control – drag, twist, and reshape until something unexpected clicks.
Every color has a name, drawn from a personal collection of over 30,000 entries — hand-curated, researched, and often invented by the author over the past 10 years. The names give abstract values a relatable character: cultural, poetic, sometimes absurd.
The screen on the opposite side of the pillar maps your palette across the full spectrum of visible color, forming regions. Large territories mean a color is very distinct; narrow slivers reveal near-duplicates. The result is an instant read on a palette's true diversity — how many genuinely distinct colour groups it contains, no matter how many swatches you started with.
Author of Polaris and a series of color tools built over the past 15 years. The practice revolves around procedural design — systems that produce outcomes rather than curate static ones. Color is the laboratory: RampenSau, Poline, and RYBitten each explore different ways to let math do the blending. The through-line: encode relationships instead of results, and you get combinations you'd never try by hand.
Building all these other tools over the past 15 years has led the author to this project.