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Have you ever tried to generate a darker variant of a brand color for a hover state, only to end up with a muddy, desaturated mess?
Or struggled to build an accessible palette because your color model kept producing inconsistent contrast ratios?
Just published an article about the OKLCH color system. If you're building a design system from scratch, this is the color model you should be using.
https://medium.com/@sandroieva/smarter-palettes-better-accessibility-why-your-design-system-needs-oklch-f20f3f9c1c1f
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