Irix

Irix is an architectonic color palette system built on Radix colors, with CLI tooling to generate, validate, and apply a coherent token set across web and terminal surfaces. It is the color backbone for this portfolio and several fleet tools.

The problem

A multi-surface portfolio and a fleet of CLI tools need one color system that stays perceptually uniform across light and dark themes, keeps accessible contrast at every step, and can be regenerated from a single source rather than hand-maintained in each consumer. Ad-hoc palettes drift, break contrast, and force per-project fixes.

The approach

Irix adapts Radix's role-and-step grammar into an architectonic token set: a fixed role vocabulary (ground, ink, structure, life, urgency) mapped to hue scales, with CLI commands to emit CSS variables, terminal palette entries, and validation reports from one declaration. The same generator produces the site's tokens and the Sublime color scheme, so a theme change propagates without manual sync.

What it demonstrates

A published, versioned palette library with CI, pre-commit hooks, typed source, and a test surface applies the same engineering care to the part of a product most teams treat as hand-tuning — design infrastructure treated as real software.