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A practical WebGL build for a West End-style theatre marquee, covering warm bulb colour, instanced geometry, human-looking failures, reduced-motion fallbacks and a performance budget that keeps the glow on a mid-range laptop.
Orange-banded tickets, amber departure boards and folded timetable cards are accidental colour systems built for function. Here are five found palettes from UK rail ephemera, plus a small browser tool for sampling your own and turning them into accessible CSS custom properties.
Woad, madder and weld are not Pantone chips, and a shader is not a dye vat. But translating historic British dye colours into GLSL is a useful exercise in restraint, spectral honesty and knowing when digital mixing lies to you.
London stock brick, Welsh slate, weathered copper and Portland stone all have a colour story worth stealing. This hands-on p5.js guide shows how to sample those references, layer noise and repeat patterns, keep sketches light in the browser, and export tiles you can actually use.
Forget generic trend palettes. These ten British coastal landscapes give you ready-to-use hex, HSL and OKLCH colours, plus creative-coding prompts for p5.js, Three.js and CSS heroes.