https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/design-systems/ Recent content in Design-Systems on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-10-05-color-manipulation-libraries-chromajs-culori-palette-go-colorful/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-10-05-color-manipulation-libraries-chromajs-culori-palette-go-colorful/ <h1 id="chromajs-vs-culori-vs-palette-vs-go-colorful-in-2026">chroma.js vs culori vs palette vs go-colorful in 2026</h1> <p>Blend red and blue in the naive way most code does it and you get a muddy gray-purple, not the vibrant magenta your designer expected. Generate a 10-step scale from a brand color by nudging lightness in HSL and every third swatch looks wrong. Ship a &ldquo;dark mode&rdquo; that fails contrast checks on half your text. These are all the same bug wearing different hats: <strong>doing color arithmetic in the wrong color space.</strong></p>