#deep-dive
3 posts
OKLCH: the color space that makes perceived contrast computable for agents
Agents parse color as hex or RGB, but those spaces are not perceptually uniform. OKLCH — baseline since May 2023 — turns lightness into a hue-agnostic, computable rule, while APCA stays a draft: here's the provenance-aware rule agents should actually enforce.
Can Design Quality Be Measured? What Design Research Actually Lets Agents Compute
Ninety years of design research yields partial, validated reward signals agents can compute today — and a hard boundary where the measurable line ends. A research deep-dive for agent builders.
The container-query gap: design inspiration still trains agents on viewport-only thinking
A 2026-08-02 scan of 11 curated 'best design' pages and 8 star-heavy GitHub repos found zero container queries and one clamp(). The ecosystem that teaches agents to design is resolution-biased — and that is a computable defect.