the worst idea anyone has ever had. ever.

[fickle radish]

toki kule: precisely express hexcodes.

1. HOW IT WORKS
   a) Start with "walo" or "pimeja". This determines whether you'll be subtracting from white or adding to black. Use walo for lighter colours and pimeja for darker ones. Add "pi" to separate.
   b) You'll be using 3 root words: loje, kasi, and laso, but first determine your 256'es. What this means is you need to express a color made of only FF's and 00's. For example, the color #FF00FF (pure magenta) ends here, as it is walo pi kasi. (or pimeja pi loje laso) Add "pi".
   c) Sharpen colors. You need all of your codes at this point to be expressed in multiples of 16. (and FF) For example, D0A060 is walo pi laso pi loje tu wan kasi luka laso luka wan ala (the ala there is to show that you're adding 6 times 16, not subtracting it) Add another "pi".
   d) Sharpen colors again. This time you're working with your second digits. Just do what you did in c.
   e) You're done!
2. EXAMPLES
   (also: Don't add more that 8. It's better to add 1 from the upper tier and subtract. also if you don't do anything in a step just write lon)
   #FFABAB = walo pi kasi luka laso luka pi kasi luka ala laso luka ala

[austere dawn]

this is evil I love it

[formal ore]

someone make a tool for this 🙏

[dusky glade]

you forgot something: len for the opacity

also i love how the example colour is "hupa" (colour #FFABAB)

[cyan umbra]

awful thank you

[fickle radish]

hexcodes dont encode opacity but thank you

[fickle radish]

(i did not mean to)

[raven oxide]

i don't understand step (c) and beyond, but this is neat
if you use CMY instead of RGB, you can use laso/loje/jelo instead of loje/kasi/telo

could you give an example that's just 00, FF, and 7F?

[fickle radish]

basically you repeat b

but instead of 256

you say how many 16's you want

same with d

how i think of it:
a) and b) - setting the approx. color
c) - determining first hex digits
d) determining second hex digits

is seven hex del such a needed number tho?

i understand del hex del

oh wait seven hex del is one less than half of a hegex

that makes sense

[formal ore]

are those real words

[fickle radish]

my base hex brain

terminology

[ebon oar]

they can! #rrggbbaa

[fickle radish]

never heard of those

[ebon oar]

yeah the aa is 0-255 opacity

[dusky glade]

yeah

[lethal tinsel]

i’m went thru the process for your second example—but the color i get is #ffa5a5 and not #ffabab? am i doing something wrong

here’s my process, description following in a moment

a)

• walo, i.e. start with #ffffff
  b)
• no words here so the color stays unchanged
  c)
• subtract 5 from the first Green digit to get #ffaXaX (kasi luka; since we started with white, numbers are subtracted by default)
• subtract 5 from the first Blue digit and get #ffaXaX (laso luka)
  d)
• add 5 to the second Green digit to get #ffa5aX (kasi luka ala; ala at the end = add instead of subtracting)
• add 5 to the second Green digit to get #ffa5a5 (laso luka ala)
  e)
• i should have #ffabab now tho???

[fickle radish]

the ala part means you invert

wait hang on i messed up

oop

it is supposed to be 6 in c and no ala's in d

[lethal tinsel]

so like this?

a)

• walo, i.e. start with #ffffff
  b)
• no words here so the color stays unchanged
  c)
• subtract 6 from the first Green digit to get #ffaXaX (kasi luka wan; since we started with white, numbers are subtracted by default)
• subtract 6 from the first Blue digit and get #ffaXaX (laso luka wan)
  d)
• subtract 5 from the second Green digit to get #ffabaX (kasi luka)
• subtract 5 from the second Green digit to get #ffabab (laso luka)
  e) looks correct now!

(mi wile pali e ilo ni → ona li pana e nanpa kule lon nasin kule sina · mi o sona wawa pona e nasin kule tawa pali ni · sona mi li wawa ala wawa la mi toki mute tawa sina)

[stark oasis]

f - 1 = e
f - 2 = d
f - 3 = c
f - 4 = b

am i missing smth here or shouldn’t “luka ala” be “tu tu ala” in the example

am making an ilo for this nasin kule

[stark oasis]

loje kasi telo as RGB is also good because you can encode with first letters of the words only

[fickle radish]

OH MY

why????????

it was a joke and

jesus christ

(if you are making this be sure to incloude "isipin tan jan Alapo" so i get credit and am not left out)

[stark oasis]

fun

(do not have wifi on computer rn but here is a ss of me running a test case on the code)

[fickle radish]

no way

it works