Protected Cultural Property
On May 14, 1954 the Hague Convention set out to prevent the destruction of culturally important artifacts. In the aftermath of the second world war where many of Europe’s cultural and social works of art and history were destroyed, something needed to be done to prevent this from happening again.
Maximum Color Contrast
If you are using deterministic color generation, then it runs the full spectrum of possible colors as results. To handle the good, the bad and the ugly colors, you need to be able to determine and adjust complimenting text and backgrounds to create the maximum contrast and readability. These are a few quick and simple functions that can help.
Omnibus 02010
This is a quick look back at the articles published in 02010 and any updates, follow-ups, corrections or conclusions since their original publication.
HLS World Map
There are several algorithms out there to programatically generate a color from text, but this takes it one step further and generates a color based on a physical location.
Building a better business card
The Business Card was the logical extension of the Visiting Card, from a social calling to a business calling. It is amazing that after hundreds of years of giving out contact details about ourselves, we still manage to do it poorly or not at all!