# Color Crafting: Automating the Construction of Designer Quality Color Ramps

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/color-crafting
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://cmci.colorado.edu/visualab/ColorCrafting/
Added: 2026-09-27

## Summary

Learns the curves in 222 designer-made ramps, then generates new ramps from a single seed color.

The project page has viewers for the ramp corpus and the learned models, worth a browse for anyone designing ramps by hand.

- Resource: [Color Crafting: Automating the Construction of Designer Quality Color Ramps](https://cmci.colorado.edu/visualab/ColorCrafting/)
- By: Stephen Smart, Keke Wu & Danielle Albers Szafir
- Published: 2019
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: advanced
- Tags: color-scales, gradients, data-viz, cielab, designer, scientist, research

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