Gestalt Color
Monolex design system
Color with coordinates, not guesses. A core hue acts as a gravity center; identity stays stable while lightness, chroma, and flow change around it.
Move the gravity center
Suggested foreground: white
Three coordinates. Three meanings.
OKLCH separates what a color does from what it is. Each axis carries a distinct part of the interface hierarchy.
Lightness controls how strongly information steps forward without changing its category.
Chroma controls intensity. Monolex uses 0.12 as a restrained default and 0.15 as a practical safe ceiling.
Hue identifies the category. It can stay fixed while lightness and chroma adapt to context.
Maximum separation, no clustering.
Each new identity rotates by the golden angle—137.507764°. The sequence distributes colors around the wheel without hand-picked exceptions.
golden angle = 360 / φ² = 137.507764°
agent step = 137.5 / 5 = 27.5°
Core is identity. Flow is relation.
Core colors live in polar OKLCH coordinates. Derived states mix in Cartesian OKLAB, creating predictable paths between gravity centers.
Fixed hue. Stable identity. The anchor that other states orbit.
A linear mix toward white. The relation changes; the source remains legible.
- Human advantage
- Brightness, urgency, and category stop competing in one value.
- AI advantage
- Colors can be generated, compared, and transformed as explicit coordinates.
- Fast project check
- |ΔL| > 40 is used as a lightness heuristic—not as a replacement for a WCAG contrast ratio.
- Terminal reality
- Equal perceived brightness helps warnings, agents, and file identities share one dense text field.