Plurrrr

week 19, 2025

More contrast for Plurrrr

Yesterday I used ChatGPT to create a palette with better contrast for the Soothe Theme by Jason Milkins. I had used Jason's Emacs theme to create the CSS file for Plurrrr but for a long time was not really happy with the contrast.

I copy pasted the minified CSS for Plurrrr into ChatGPT and prompted:

Analyze the following CSS and create a more contrast version of the color palette used. Try to stay as close to the palette as possible while increasing contrast.

This resulted in a table with old and new color codes and a short description of the action taken.

ChatGPT asked if I wanted to apply the changes to the original CSS to which I replied "Yes". This resulted in a minified CSS file which I used to test the new color scheme; much better!

Today I updated tumblelog, the program that generates this site from a single Markdown file with additional directives, with the new style and generated the CSS for the new style and updated Plurrrr. I also manually edited the SVG file that contains the logo in Emacs and exported it to a PNG file using Inkscape. Finally, I updated the favicon.ico.

Enjoy the much better contrast!

The better contrast style is available as soothe-better-contrast on GitHub.