Show HN: Palette, a Figma plugin that turns one color into a whole UI system (figma.com)

I was inspired to build this because of AI slop design. That led me down the path of why computers didn't 'see' color the way that humans did - and the lack of a common language between perceptual, display, and print color spaces (there was no Unicode for color).

That led me to inventing and patenting ART, a new color language, and Orchestra, the engine that runs it.

Palette is the first product built on this tech, and it solves problems I faced as a designer for the last 30 years:

- Colors that shift when you make them lighter or darker - The RGB color wheel tells you colors should look good together but don't - Printed colors never match their digital counterparts - Accessibility required tedious math and was never just baked in - Generated color ramps cut off near black and never provided the shades I needed

I'm excited to finally share Palette with the world - and I'm hard at work on a web-based version, an Adobe plugin, and our next big release: Converter. The color conversion tool you've always wanted and never had.