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OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Evil Martians Chronicles · 17 September 2025 · 32 min read

A post on evilmartians.com, published 17 September 2025, is cited by 36 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 16 October 2026).

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36blogs citing

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First cited5 Nov 2021
Latest citation11 Jun 2026
Words blogs link it with5
External links28
Length7,275
New citing blogs a weeksince Nov 2021
New citing blogs a week, since Nov 2021: 259 weeks, peak 3 a week, latest week 0

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Shape: slow burn. Half of its 34 citing blogs had cited it after 1,200 days; 0% first cited it more than a year on.

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 2 blogs have no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

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Cited by 36 blogs across 7 subjects: technology 21, business and economics 2, design and making 2, arts and culture 1, books and writing 1, food and drink 1, life 1, unclassified 7.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • oklch in css: why we moved from rgb and hsl8 blogs
  • oklch2 blogs
  • oklch in css2 blogs
  • an article1 blog
  • an article explaining why they transitioned from rgb and hsl to the new oklab color format1 blog

Cited by 36 blogs in 37 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

blog.steveasleep.com1 post
Steve's Real Blog

linked as “OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL”

Read at blog.steveasleep.com (opens in a new tab)
11 Jun 2026
Welcome Home.1 post
CSS tips for better theming

linked as “why it's better”

Read at blog.welcomehome.city (opens in a new tab)
26 May 2026
octalwave.com1 post
Good Terminal Color Schemes Are Rare, So I Wrote a Generator

linked as “Evil Martians make the case”

Read at octalwave.com (opens in a new tab)
18 May 2026
heartsoulmachine.com1 post
To the Dark Side

linked as “OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL”

Read at heartsoulmachine.com (opens in a new tab)
10 Apr 2026
vpon.me1 post
What is OKLCH and why you should use it

linked as “from this article”

Read at vpon.me (opens in a new tab)
24 Feb 2026
brontosaurusrex.github.io1 post
Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 Read at brontosaurusrex.github.io (opens in a new tab)
16 Feb 2026
asbedb.dev1 post
sRGB to HSV - Science or Magic?

linked as “OKCLH”

Read at asbedb.dev (opens in a new tab)
17 Jan 2026
etc.octavore.com1 post
notes on color systems

linked as “Evil Martians post”

Read at etc.octavore.com (opens in a new tab)
14 Oct 2025
strength of one — a man and his cigar on whatever comes our way1 post
The Movies

linked as “OKLCH”

Read at blog.strengthofone.com (opens in a new tab)
28 Sept 2025
notes.samfeldstein.xyz1 post
OKLCH CSS Colors

linked as “OKLCH in CSS”

Read at notes.samfeldstein.xyz (opens in a new tab)
7 Aug 2025
samfeldstein.xyz1 post
OKLCH CSS Colors

linked as “OKLCH in CSS”

Read at samfeldstein.xyz (opens in a new tab)
7 Aug 2025
carter.works1 post
CARTER_RULES.md

linked as “oklch”

Read at carter.works (opens in a new tab)
4 Aug 2025
milosjeremic.com1 post
Color: Back in Black

linked as “OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL”

Read at milosjeremic.com (opens in a new tab)
13 May 2025
insights4print.ceo1 post
The web embraces OKLch (OKLab), when will print follow? A better way to describe color

linked as ““OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL””

Read at insights4print.ceo (opens in a new tab)
10 May 2025
tuist.dev1 post
Meet the new Tuist dashboard

linked as “blog post”

Read at tuist.dev (opens in a new tab)
17 Apr 2025
Sindre Sorhus1 post
New App: Simple Color Palette

linked as “Learn more.”

Read at sindresorhus.com (opens in a new tab)
12 Apr 2025
Ahmad Shadeed1 post
CSS Relative Colors

linked as “an article”

Read at ishadeed.com (opens in a new tab)
9 Mar 2025
karuna.dev1 post
Colormaxxing

linked as “this awesome blog post”

Read at karuna.dev (opens in a new tab)
17 Feb 2025
Damian Walsh | Designer (Interaction/UX/UI) based in Manchester, UK1 post
Dynamic colour palettes with OKLCH and CSS custom properties

linked as “OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL”

Read at damianwalsh.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
17 Feb 2025
My home ✣ S.Bistrović1 post
OKLCHanger VS Code extension

linked as “an article explaining why they transitioned from RGB and HSL to the new Oklab color format”

Read at silvestar.codes (opens in a new tab)
5 Nov 2024
abhisaha.com1 post
Interactive post on OKLCH color space

linked as “Why oklch() is a great go-to choice - Andrey Sitnik”

Read at abhisaha.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Oct 2024
aaadaaam.com1 post
Chasing color

linked as “perceptually uniform color space like OKLCH”

Read at aaadaaam.com (opens in a new tab)
1 Oct 2024
paoramen.fika.bar1 post
All websites look the same: Let's bring the colors back!

linked as “article on OKLCH”

Read at paoramen.fika.bar (opens in a new tab)
2 Sept 2024
dan-webnotes.com1 post
Using the new OKLCH colors to remove dependencies

linked as “OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL”

Read at dan-webnotes.com (opens in a new tab)
21 Jul 2024
manuel-strehl.de1 post
Easy Theming with OKLCH colors

linked as “detailed elsewhere already”

Read at manuel-strehl.de (opens in a new tab)
2 Jan 2024

Links from this post

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https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/ Who cites this page
w3.org
https://oklch.com/ Who cites this page
oklch.com
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1173638098109123591/okcolor Who cites this page
figma.com
https://forum.figma.com/t/support-oklab-and-oklch/18287
forum.figma.com
https://huetone.ardov.me/ Who cites this page
huetone.ardov.me
A perceptual color space for image processing Read at bottosson.github.io (opens in a new tab)
bottosson.github.io
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-5/ Who cites this page
w3.org
Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems Read at wildbit.com (opens in a new tab)
wildbit.com
LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how? Read at lea.verou.me (opens in a new tab)
lea.verou.me
sRGB gamut clipping Read at bottosson.github.io (opens in a new tab)
bottosson.github.io
https://twitter.com/bjornornorn Who cites this page
twitter.com
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/gradient-interpolation.html Who cites this page
helpx.adobe.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROYGBIV Who cites this page
en.wikipedia.org
https://svgees.us/Color/ok-clip-lch-explorer.html
svgees.us
https://github.com/fpetrakov/stylelint-gamut Who cites this page
github.com
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value/oklch Who cites this page
developer.mozilla.org
https://preset-env.cssdb.org/ Who cites this page
preset-env.cssdb.org
https://github.com/fpetrakov/convert-to-oklch Who cites this page
github.com
https://github.com/evilmartians/oklch-picker/blob/main/view/base/colors.css Who cites this page
github.com
https://stylelint.io/ Who cites this page
stylelint.io
https://www.npmjs.com/package/stylelint-gamut Who cites this page
npmjs.com
https://github.com/stylelint/stylelint-config-recommended Who cites this page
github.com
https://codepen.io/egodyston/pen/rNJRgBo Who cites this page
codepen.io
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-images-4/ Who cites this page
drafts.csswg.org
https://colorjs.io Who cites this page
colorjs.io
https://culorijs.org Who cites this page
culorijs.org
https://github.com/evilmartians/oklch-picker Who cites this page
github.com
https://www.myndex.com/APCA/ Who cites this page
myndex.com

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