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GitHub - carpdiem/ember: Redshift-aware terminal, categorical, and sequential color palettes

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Pangram verdict · v3.3

We believe this text is mainly AI, with some human-written content.

92 %

AI likelihood · overall

AI
7% human-written 93% AI-generated
SEGMENTS · HUMAN 1 of 3
SEGMENTS · AI 1 of 3
WORD COUNT 244
PEAK AI % 91% · §2
Analyzed
Aug 14
backend: pangram/v3.3
Segments scanned
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avg 81 words each
Distribution
7 / 93%
human / AI fraction
Verdict
AI
Pangram v3.3

Article text · 244 words · 3 segments analyzed

Human AI-generated
§1 Human · 2%

Ember: Nightshift / Redshift safe color palettes Terminal, chart, heatmap, and UI palettes that remain usable before and after aggressive warm-screen filtering. Ember was created to solve the problem of traditional color palettes having colors that appear indistinguishable once you turn on redshift. With Ember, the primary goal is distinctive colors under various color temperature filters. Only once that's satisfied do we further tweak the redshift-degenerate color channels to improve visual separation during daytime (aka - with no redshift applied). Ember comes with 4 color palettes: 3400K Dark 3400K Light 2000K Dark 1200K Dark The 3400K palettes are good for general use, and approximately optimized for a Macbook's maximum Nightshift effect. The 2000K and 1200K palettes are more specialized for true "deep redshift" fans (and astronomers). One interesting consequence is that the 2000K and 1200K extreme redshift palettes have fewer distinct colors than the 3400K palettes. This is because such extreme redshifts dramatically reduce the size of the perceptual color space available to choose colors from! More on this below...

§2 AI · 91%

Each palette is authored in commanded sRGB, verified under its corresponding color temperature's modeled per-channel RGB gains, and exported as terminal themes (Alacritty, iTerm2, Windows Terminal), UI surface roles, categorical chart colors, a 256-sample sequential map, and Matplotlib/CSS/JSON/Python artifacts. Ember does not apply the filter; keep using the one you already have.

§3 Mixed · 37%

The four palettes 3400K Dark 3400K Light 2000K Dark 1200K Dark These are the exact commanded sRGB values shipped in every export.