The picker paints every swatch through pastelize, which pins lightness to
a constant and caps saturation — so the raw palette's lightness axis is
invisible on screen. Curating in raw space (as the first pass did) left
near-identical painted swatches (navy/blue/midnightblue all paint as one
mid blue) and stranded every neutral as an identical pale tint in a run of
"pinks" at the end of the grid.
Move dedup, thinning, and ordering into the painted (pastelised) space the
user actually sees: colours that paint identically collapse to one,
oversized palettes drop washed-out neutral-origin tints (painted chroma
below a floor) and thin by CIE76 ΔE in painted Lab, and the survivors sort
continuously by painted hue with the wheel cut at its widest gap. The CSS3
147-colour dump now lands at ~33 distinct, rainbow-ordered swatches with no
neutrals stranded at the end.
The hue/saturation shaping moves into a shared domain pastelArgb() so the
picker paints exactly what curation reasons about; ui/pastelize wraps it and
only picks the theme's brightness.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jean-Luc Makiola
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