Colour-rich code for UK makers
Ceefax's eight-colour palette is a shortcut to instant recognition, but pure teletext colours were never designed for WCAG. This guide rebuilds the mode-7 look in Canvas with OKLCH tokens, automatic contrast checks and a few responsible-use rules for UK maker sites.
A practical WebGL build for a West End-style theatre marquee, covering warm bulb colour, instanced geometry, human-looking failures, reduced-motion fallbacks and a performance budget that keeps the glow on a mid-range laptop.
A colour-rich audit of ten familiar UK shopfront types, turned into practical CSS custom-property palettes and tested for contrast without tipping into nostalgic pastiche.
A practical walkthrough for pulling UK forecast data into a small JavaScript or p5.js sketch, then mapping rain, temperature and wind into a restrained OKLCH palette. Includes API-key handling, sensible caching, and fallbacks for when the feed — like the weather — refuses to cooperate.
Orange-banded tickets, amber departure boards and folded timetable cards are accidental colour systems built for function. Here are five found palettes from UK rail ephemera, plus a small browser tool for sampling your own and turning them into accessible CSS custom properties.
Woad, madder and weld are not Pantone chips, and a shader is not a dye vat. But translating historic British dye colours into GLSL is a useful exercise in restraint, spectral honesty and knowing when digital mixing lies to you.
Fixed light and dark modes treat the British day like a switch, but our winters fade by mid-afternoon and our summers stretch past nine. Here is a small, accessible system for shifting palette temperature and contrast with the sun — without turning your site into a gimmick.
London stock brick, Welsh slate, weathered copper and Portland stone all have a colour story worth stealing. This hands-on p5.js guide shows how to sample those references, layer noise and repeat patterns, keep sketches light in the browser, and export tiles you can actually use.
Too many UK creative tools look like they were designed in the same grey waiting room. Here is a practical argument for colour with a point of view — plus a token structure, testing routine and checklist for teams that want to stand out without breaking usability.
Forget generic trend palettes. These ten British coastal landscapes give you ready-to-use hex, HSL and OKLCH colours, plus creative-coding prompts for p5.js, Three.js and CSS heroes.
Accessible colour does not have to mean grey buttons and apologetic links. Here is a practical OKLCH and token workflow for UK public-sector and charity sites that keeps brand colour rich while meeting WCAG 2.2 contrast checks, with a starter palette and a p5.js ratio preview.