Designgraphik vs Opalite

Designgraphik is Michael Paul Young. His innovative work has been exhibited worldwide, from the 500,000 LED pixels of U2’s 360° Tour to a 70-foot tall projection on Richard Meier’s The Hague City Hall. He has won awards including the Clio and the Cannes Gold Cyber Lion and has spoken at the world’s most renowned design conventions and festivals. At the turn of the millennium, Young found himself needing a place to explore and test the boundaries of online digital art, resulting in his creation of the Designgraphik name and website. Whether on the web at that site and others like Submethod and Vir2l, in print, or on various hard media, his goal was always the exploration and testing of boundaries, under presentation circumstances that he controlled, in environments that were his own proprietary creations. The work helped to shape online design throughout the late 90s and early 00s, and was nominated for and won numerous multimedia and online design awards until Young retired the Designgraphik name in 2010. In 2020, as we enter the fourth decade of life online, nothing is proprietary. Online art is democratized and sanitized, cropped, compressed, formatted, influenced, ranked, rated and ultimately forgotten in a dark corner of a corporate data center. And so Young has re-launched the Designgraphik name and ethos, once again in presentation circumstances under his control, in an environment that is his own proprietary creation. The ultimate expression of that concept is this app, designed to present Young's work as Designgraphik in high resolution, in a custom gallery, for free.

Take control of your colors. Pick colors from photos, check WCAG contrast, simulate color blindness, and export palettes to Procreate, SwiftUI, CSS, and Adobe — all in one app. Opalite is the color toolkit designers, developers, and digital artists actually use, built natively for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. ▸ PICK COLORS SIX WAYS Spectrum for precise hues Grid of preset swatches Channel sliders for fine-tuning Hex, RGB, HSL, and CMYK codes, with paste from any design tool Shuffle for instant inspiration Sample from photos, the camera, or anything on your Mac's screen ▸ UNDERSTAND EVERY COLOR Codes in every format, one tap to copy Harmonies: complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, and split Tints, shades, and tones Name suggestions powered by Apple Intelligence ▸ ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY Unlimited colors, free forever Palettes with notes, tags, preview backgrounds, and archiving Drag and drop between palettes, manual ordering Search your whole library instantly iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Vision Pro ▸ DESIGN FOR EVERYONE WCAG contrast checker with AA and AAA results Color vision simulation — protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, achromatopsia — across the whole app ▸ DRAW ON CANVAS Apple Pencil and PencilKit, with hover Shapes, placed images, and SVG placement A swatch strip that sets your ink from any palette One canvas free, unlimited with Onyx ▸ JOIN THE COMMUNITY Publish colors and palettes for creators worldwide Browse and search what others share Save Community colors and palettes to your library (Onyx) ▸ EXPORT ANYWHERE Opalite files, PNG, and PDF portfolios Procreate swatches, Adobe ASE, GIMP palettes, CSS, and SwiftUI (Onyx) Quick Look previews and thumbnails for Opalite files ▸ EVERYWHERE YOU WORK SwatchBar: a slim window for copying hex codes and picking ink beside other apps on iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro Siri and Shortcuts, Spotlight, Home Screen quick actions, and widgets An iMessage app for sending swatches, and a Share Extension that samples colors from any image A watch complication, and an immersive color constellation on Vision Pro ▸ SIMPLE PRICING Free: unlimited colors, 5 palettes, 1 canvas, every picker, the contrast checker, and Community browsing Onyx: $9.99 once, forever — unlimited palettes and canvases, Community saves, and pro export formats No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your library lives in your own iCloud. Indie-made by Molargik Software LLC. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/