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The beautiful color pallette of Britain's National Grid: Live site
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The beautiful color pallette of Britain's National Grid: Live site

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Apr 29, 2025
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Kate Morley is a software developer in the U.K. who developed the National Grid's live page showing where the power's coming from—only 20% fossil fuels, yay Britain. She describes how she designed the beautiful yet simple color pallette it uses. Morley applies elegant rules that account for how we see colors instead of abritrarily picking nice colors. […

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