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Val Verde
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Design Systems designers: can we call black/gray/white color scales "Mono" or "Monochromatics" rather than "Neutrals", since we're using the term "neutral" to refer to surface colors that often contain a hue? Neutral should describe a color tone, not your default grayscale scheme
This new oklch color system looks promising... evilmartians.com/events/why-…
My Twitter/X notifications are filled with random people posting random bullshit rather than the design-centric feed this was originally curated for. Enshittification continues
…more reading here on the difficult problem of naming things: gos.si/blog/the-primary-seco…
For the designing of #designsystems, instead of using terms Primary/Secondary/Tertiary for color scale dynamics or Subtle/Neutral/Strong, maybe we might borrow from music dynamics and use unique words to describe quiet/loudness such as "piano" or "forte"… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynami…
Any @figma users keep hitting "Shift + D" and triggering Dev Mode on accident? forum.figma.com/t/request-ch…
New Philly band you to check out... colorcharge.bandcamp.com/alb…
Dammit... Wikipedia hole strikes again...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr…
Design System question... if our most common base size is 16 because of browser typography defaults, why make our sizing base different, say base-4 or base-8, which are very common?
Designers would really benefit from global design lexicon/system (via @brad_frost). How different design systems swap terms for variables is maddening... primitives, semantic, #brand, variables, tokens, size-0100=8px, size-0100=4px, size-8=8px, size050=8px... then the values…
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash anildash.com//2024/02/06/whe…