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Palette
A planning tool for exploring glass colour, compatibility and material choices before work moves to the bench. Palette connects to more than 2,400 unique glasses from 10 fused and stained-glass manufacturers.
At a glance
Project snapshot
- Audience
- Artists choosing glass across stained-glass and kilnformed workflows who need to compare colour and material options with care.
- Studio role
- Product strategy, UX/UI, data organization and implementation for a specialist colour-planning workflow.
- Working interface
- Palette gives artists a focused place to assemble and compare glass choices with material context across more than 2,400 unique glasses from 10 fused and stained-glass manufacturers.
- Current state
- Live · in active development
01 The product
What artists can do with it
Palette gives artists a focused place to assemble and compare glass choices with material context across more than 2,400 unique glasses from 10 fused and stained-glass manufacturers.
It helps artists reason through combinations earlier, reducing the gap between an idea on screen and the material decisions made in the studio. Colour suggestions use CIEDE2000, a perceptual colour-difference formula, so matches are ranked closer to how people see colour instead of by simple RGB distance.
02 Why it matters
The problem it solves
Glass choices carry practical consequences: colour, compatibility, sheet choice and availability all affect what an artist can make.
A planning tool for exploring glass colour, compatibility and material choices before work moves to the bench. Palette connects to more than 2,400 unique glasses from 10 fused and stained-glass manufacturers.
03 Workflow
How the product helps artists
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Build a working palette for a project.
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Use palette choices as a starting point for related planning workflows where supported.
In use
From reference photo to glass choices
Palette belongs close to the image that started the idea. The workspace keeps sampled colours, real glass matches and saved choices together while the artist is still deciding what to use.
Glass matches in the studio
04 Inside the build
Built for the way artists work
The technical choices support the same practical workflow as the interface.
Technical detail 01
Browser-native product surface
Palette ships as HTML, CSS and JavaScript with material datasets loaded directly into the app, keeping the specialist workflow portable and inspectable.
Technical detail 02
Perceptual colour matching
Glass matches are ranked with CIEDE2000 rather than simple RGB distance, reflecting how perceived difference changes across the spectrum.
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Local-first project state
Named palettes persist in localStorage, while portable .palette.json files carry work between devices and into Template Studio without requiring an account.
05 See the product
The colour-matching workspace
These screens show the reference image, sampled colours, Delphi glass matches and saved Palette staying together as choices get refined. The matching uses CIEDE2000 to compare perceived colour difference, while the product set connects to more than 2,400 unique glasses from 10 fused and stained-glass manufacturers.
In the product 01
Turn inspiration into exact glass choices
The current Delphi-integrated workspace keeps the reference image, sampled colours, real glass matches and working Palette together, so inspiration remains connected to products an artist can review and order.
In the product 02
Keep subtle material matches in context
The current workspace holds the portrait, nine sampled colours, matched glass and the working Palette in one frame, making refinement possible without reconstructing earlier choices.
06 Why it works this way
Choices shaped by the studio workflow
Respect material specificity
The interface treats glass as a real material with compatibility, product data and supplier context, not as generic colour swatches.
Keep decisions close together
Colour exploration, palette assembly and related planning paths sit in one connected workflow.
Match perception, not raw RGB distance
Palette ranks candidates with CIEDE2000 and does not rank iridescent or surface-sheen glass when product photography cannot represent its base colour reliably.
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