huemantics/ 0.1 Local research instrument

COLOR / EMOTION / COMPOSITION

Color, in context.

Not just which colors. What they do together.

Start from a brand color or 12 original recipes.
Compare the same interface, change the relationships.

AUTHOR HYPOTHESES · OPAQUE sRGB BASELINE

01 Comparison workbench

FIXED CONTENT · FIXED TYPE · FIXED GEOMETRY
Appearance
Test surface

Read the pairs, then read the page. A passing token audit does not certify the rendered interface.

02 / CONTRAST REPAIR

Change only what you must.

Keep the background fixed. Search foreground lightness, preserve the intended hue direction, recheck the quantized result.

A finite, fixed-hue search with chroma reduction. Not a global optimum, full CSS gamut mapping or a substitute for layout review.

03 / ASSIGNED-PAIR AUDIT

Make the tradeoffs visible.

Numeric checks for the selected recipe A. These are declarations about assigned pairs, not observations of every screen pixel.

Inspect all 24 assigned pairs
Intentionally not claimed

Whole-site WCAG compliance, color-vision-deficiency safety, validated emotional response, or improved conversion.

04 / FIELD NOTES

Build on good evidence.

Documentation reviewed 2026-10-17. No third-party palette corpus is bundled. License observations are not approvals; immutable pins and actual-byte verification remain local handoff work.