Tartan Dictionary palette

March 18, 2023 2 min 49 s

Role centroids over the Tartan Registry 2022 colour legend (internal/tartan).

And plotted over the fine grid in three illuminance layers — light, mid and dark. Each wheel is one lightness layer plotted in OKLab's own dimensions: the angle is hue — red at the top, then clockwise through orange and brown, yellow, green, blue and purple, the wheel's jog order — and the radius is chroma, with rings every 0.05. The faint grey dots are the fine grid at that lightness; the red dashed line is the dyeable limit. Hover a dot for its code, name and hex. The small dots are the human palette, the full dots this palette's own shades — so you can read how it lands among the named colours.

The shades

Each shade in OKLCh — lightness L, chroma C and hue h (degrees). The small number under each is that axis's fine-grid index: the lattice level, chroma ring and snapped hue angle that together make the shade's grid code.

Shade	Code	Name	Family	sRGB	L	C	h	Records
`#F9F5EF`	`W`	White	White · Grey · Black	`#F9F5EF`	0.972 ₉₆	0.009 ₁	78° ₀₇₈	4
`#E0E0E0`	`LN`	Light Grey	White · Grey · Black	`#E0E0E0`	0.907 ₉₀	0.000 ₀	—	1
`#909090`	`N`	Grey	White · Grey · Black	`#909090`	0.653 ₆₅	0.000 ₀	—	10
`#1F2730`	`DN`	Dark Grey	White · Grey · Black	`#1F2730`	0.269 ₂₇	0.020 ₂	252° ₂₅₂	1
`#0C0B0B`	`K`	Black	White · Grey · Black	`#0C0B0B`	0.151 ₁₅	0.002 ₀	—	4
`#EC86A9`	`LR`	Light Red	Red	`#EC86A9`	0.740 ₇₃	0.130 ₁₃	359° ₀₀₀	3
`#CF1F21`	`R`	Red	Red	`#CF1F21`	0.549 ₅₄	0.208 ₂₁	27° ₀₂₇	8
`#81091F`	`DR`	Dark Red	Red	`#81091F`	0.386 ₃₈	0.149 ₁₅	20° ₀₂₁	9
`#E27D2B`	`O`	Orange	Orange & Brown	`#E27D2B`	0.689 ₆₈	0.154 ₁₅	55° ₀₅₄	4
`#9F7A47`	`LT`	Light Brown	Orange & Brown	`#9F7A47`	0.604 ₆₀	0.082 ₈	74° ₀₇₅	4
`#BC631F`	`DO`	Dark Orange	Orange & Brown	`#BC631F`	0.594 ₅₉	0.137 ₁₄	53° ₀₅₄	2
`#6A3F0D`	`T`	Brown	Orange & Brown	`#6A3F0D`	0.411 ₄₁	0.085 ₈	64° ₀₆₃	4
`#F8EFB8`	`LY`	Light Yellow	Yellow	`#F8EFB8`	0.946 ₉₄	0.071 ₇	100° ₀₉₉	3
`#F2CD0C`	`Y`	Yellow	Yellow	`#F2CD0C`	0.855 ₈₅	0.174 ₁₇	96° ₀₉₆	7
`#C79200`	`DY`	Dark Yellow	Yellow	`#C79200`	0.693 ₆₉	0.143 ₁₄	83° ₀₈₄	4
`#8EA960`	`LG`	Light Green	Green	`#8EA960`	0.697 ₆₉	0.103 ₁₀	126° ₁₂₆	5
`#276B27`	`G`	Green	Green	`#276B27`	0.468 ₄₆	0.123 ₁₂	143° ₁₄₄	14
`#00371C`	`DG`	Dark Green	Green	`#00371C`	0.296 ₂₉	0.073 ₇	155° ₁₅₆	4
`#78DCF6`	`LB`	Light Blue	Blue	`#78DCF6`	0.843 ₈₃	0.100 ₁₀	217° ₂₁₆	3
`#2E74C1`	`B`	Blue	Blue	`#2E74C1`	0.554 ₅₅	0.139 ₁₄	253° ₂₅₂	16
`#0E1A66`	`DB`	Dark Blue	Blue	`#0E1A66`	0.272 ₂₇	0.132 ₁₃	268° ₂₆₇	10
`#AE90CC`	`LP`	Light Purple	Purple	`#AE90CC`	0.702 ₇₀	0.092 ₉	307° ₃₀₆	3
`#8227A4`	`P`	Purple	Purple	`#8227A4`	0.471 ₄₇	0.195 ₁₉	315° ₃₁₅	7
`#440044`	`DP`	Dark Purple	Purple	`#440044`	0.271 ₂₇	0.125 ₁₂	328° ₃₂₇	1