algorithmic-color-palette SKILL.md skillA
algorithmic-color-palette from dembrandt/dembrandt-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/algorithmic-color-palette@git:20261001.b05848aPins git:20261001.b05848a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dembrandt/dembrandt-skills
- Path
skills/algorithmic-color-palette/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261001.b05848a, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 11,624 bytes
- Repository stars
- 179
- License
- MIT
Derive a full UI palette from one or two brand colours — state variants, brand-tinted greys, semantic colours. Use when building or expanding a colour system.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Algorithmic Colour Palette A brand palette of 2–3 colours is not enough for a UI. You need shades for states (hover, active, disabled), neutrals for backgrounds and borders, and semantic colours for status. Deriving these algorithmically from the brand colours produces a palette that feels coherent — everything is visually related to the brand rather than pulled from a generic grey or a stock colour library. > **Don't guess the seed colours — extract them (dembrandt engine, optional).** If the brand already exists on the web, pull its *real* palette off the live site instead of eyeballing a hex: `get_color_palette` (or the `extract-design` skill) returns the actual computed brand and neutral colours from the DOM, which you then expand with the methods below. See [`extract-design`](../extract-design/SKILL.md) for setup. ## Deriving Interactive State Colours From each brand colour, generate at minimum three variants: base, darker (hover/active), lighter (tint/background). ### Method: HSL adjustment ``` base: hsl(H, S%, L%) hover: hsl(H, S%, L% - 8%) ← darken by reducing lightness active: hsl(H, S%, L% - 14%) ← darken further …
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How to install
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/algorithmic-color-palette@sha256:4e9fcd8c8d7810e9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.b05848a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 41 days.
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| git:20261001.b05848a latest | 2026-10-01 | b05848a | 11,624 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.55e2cee | 2026-10-01 | 55e2cee | 11,832 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.d54dfaf | 2026-07-10 | d54dfaf | 11,510 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.f148914 | 2026-04-19 | f148914 | 11,088 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.a92f9ce | 2026-04-19 | a92f9ce | 6,569 B | A | view |
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Source
dembrandt/dembrandt-skills · 179 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rmcqbv6hzhex6qbi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/algorithmic-color-palette GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4e9fcd8c8d7810e9b12f73f8436afedf0b2f37a7e348ee861357f26c600b71f8
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