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We already have 3-digit hex colors, e.g. #fff is white.

I don't see the point of using decimals here. You only lose resolution.

author here. i find it hard to count with letters

Well, I find it hard to reason with RGB values. It is much easier to use HSV, to be honest, after looking up the Hue with a tool.

author here. that's okay this tool is for me

That's certain okay with me, but I assumed you came here to get feedback.

i didn't

that's so real tbh

Sorry who are you? Are you the author?

yes that's the author, but he didn't submit this to HackerNews

i'm not a man

Username doesn't check out :P

it's been a wild two decades since i picked it

You go, girl!

i'm not a girl

You go, simple-as! :)

Hopefully this thread isn't putting you down. Sorry if it's coming off like that.

Yeah, completely unintentional on my part, but I do be dumb sometimes.

Welp, I done goofed.

Fuck it, just have a great day :P

https://www.todepond.com/sky/non-binary/

you go with any pronouns so why bring this up?

author here. it's good for the video

I don't know that video you are talking about

author here

They did not submit it and they can't take it down either

Feedback is when it's useful.

Dang, given all the cool visual work on your website I absolutely would not have expected that. Always good to be reminded how disparate we all are from one another.

Makes me grateful I got my mom to sign that waiver to let me get on Neopets, I don't even see the hex code anymore, I just see marigold, umber, vermilion.

If one works with shaders, you get the best of both worlds just by dividing by 10:

  vec3 color = vec3(1.0, 0.3, 0.9);

One decimal digit ought to be enough for anyone.

Take care here though, because shaders are almost always working in linear sRGB colors, while color codes are almost always defined in gamma-encoded sRGB.

This property makes it mildly annoying to copy color constants between different contexts.

Also if you divide by 10 your maximum is 0.9, not 1.0.

So you still need a calculator to map between the two.

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