Entries on colour, mood, and what it means to design with light. Browse all entries below or filter by category.
Ask anyone their favourite colour. The answer is the sum of every layer covered in Arc 2. What personal preference reveals, what it hides, and where Arc 3 begins.
For some people, music has a colour, letters have a hue, and Tuesday is green. What synaesthesia reveals about how colour binds to the other senses, in everyone.
White as the colour of weddings in one tradition and of mourning in another. Where universal perception ends and cultural meaning begins, and what it means for design across borders.
A palette is a key signature. How colour, value, and light together set the emotional temperature of a room, an image, or a page, and why dominant tones matter more than accents.
A specific blue can return a kitchen you have not stood in for thirty years. How colour binds to memory, why eras have palettes, and what it means for design.
Colour acts on the body before the mind names it. Goethe's emotional theory, the autonomic response, and what it means for colour to be felt.
From Chevreul's harmonic pairs to Itten's seven contrasts to Albers' skepticism, what makes colours feel like they belong together and why the rules are always provisional.
How staring at a colour fatigues the cones that detect it, leaving the opponent channel unmasked, and why surgeons wear blue-green scrubs.
How surrounding colour changes the appearance of an enclosed colour, from Chevreul's tapestry workshops to Albers' paper squares to the produce aisle.
How the brain rewrites what the eye receives, maintaining stable colour perception as illumination shifts from noon to golden hour.
When two surfaces match under one light and fall apart under another, and why specifying illuminant matters as much as specifying hue.
Why even spacing on a colour wheel is a teaching fiction, and what perceptual spaces such as Munsell and CIELAB actually describe.
Why gold replaced rose as the primary accent, what hex value was chosen, and how the arc colour system adapts.
Why I stripped the dynamic dropdown, flattened the nav, and moved Contact and Tools to the footer. The design reasoning behind the navigation redesign.
Why I moved away from a hero-and-tagline layout and let the arc structure lead. The design reasoning behind the new home page.
Three changes to the post list and article templates: the design reasoning behind each one.
A difficult week marked by redundancy, reflection, and a quiet shift towards rebuilding with intention.
A reference for all available MDX components: typography, callouts, definitions, stats, timelines, comparisons, and tooltips.
A short break, reframing this project.
The warmth and coolness of colour, and how contrast brings form to light.
A foundational framework for how colour shifts, softens and deepens. The trinity of HSL.
A visual and conceptual guide to RYB, RGB, CMYK, and LAB. How different systems define and construct colour
An exploration of the three traits that define every colour: hue, value, and chroma. The axes of perception.
A foundational meditation on how colour is not a thing, but a result. It is an echo of light.
A note on the technical and creative reasoning behind building Writ in Light with Astro.
Notes on integrating a comment section with Astro, motion, and modular simplicity.
Filling my backlog of education requirements with the help of ChatGPT
A demonstration of how to inject images directly into MDX blog posts.
Introducing a personal journal at the intersection of design, perception, and identity. Exploring how colour shapes the way we see the world and ourselves.
How building a site to learn colour helped me rediscover the emotional side of design.