Cover Story · 14 min
Orion-A and the contrast law that holds the palette together
Six months ago we shipped the Nebula color engine with a promise: every surface pair would stay legible under every tier override. This is how the math came together — from a tense whiteboard sketch in March to the lookup that now resolves at compile time, soundlessly, for every block in the framework.
Plover Hexstrom· May 12, 2026 · Engineering