themes

I was researching procedural generation as it intersects with web design, thinking about ways to distill color theory, UX and such into a deterministic engine (the metadata from the link below is a joke, but if you make therapy for agents, please at least send me an autograph, the side panel on that site is the research demo):

So that’s what I’m implementing now into my blog platform:

Inspired by Realtime Colors, the editor allows me to manually set theme colors and fonts, or use a generator which always generates nice looking themes based on color theory. It detects contrast issues and proposes fixes. Now my users can have beautiful times literally a few clicks away, and this stuff is fully deterministic, no AI, score!

This is some of the most fun I’ve had with the publishing platform I’m building, just finding the next theme I like and saving it, sharing it with friends.

Hope to move to layouts later (that’ll take a while though, so I’ll start with the quintessential blog-related ones that’ll have the highest impact).