Request for more purple colors

[ericawright]

I'm combing through the firefox-iOS colors in an attempt to align it more closely to our design system. I'm in need of a lighter purple, something like a Purple40. They are currently using #cf68ff - Purple 50 is too dark, this is displayed on a dark background, and Purple50 is difficult to see.

I'm also in need of something like: #440071, I can get a similar result if I use Purple60 with 30 alpha, but our purples are too red to replace it.

[ericawright]

Also, can we add a Black? For consistency, since we have a white.

[aminalhazwani]

@ericawright sorry if I haven't followed up!

Tomorrow I will go through your purple request, usually the rule of thumb for new shades is to use the same hue and play with the saturation/luminance.

Regarding the black the rationale behind not including it is that we recommend to never user pitch black in UIs but favor Grey 90 instead.

[ericawright]

I understand the rationale, but unfortunately black seems to be a necessary evil. Not including it, for me, just means I have to make my own variable, because I can't avoid it in this case.

[aminalhazwani]

@ericawright if it's only in this case it's reasonable to have an outlier therefore writing your own variable. But now you made me curious, why and where are you forced to use #000000 instead of #0c0c0d?

Regarding the purples the shades that they are suggesting - #cf68ff - is closer to a potential purple 30 rather than purple 40. I tweaked the hue so that it aligns with the rest of the palette and ended to:

• Purple 30 #c069ff
• Purple 40 #ad3bff

I opened FirefoxUX/design-tokens#53.

I'm also in need of something like: #440071, I can get a similar result if I use Purple60 with 30 alpha, but our purples are too red to replace it.

I am not sure I am fully understanding here,#440071 is currently Purple 80. Can you tell me more? Thanks!

[ericawright]

sorry, that was a typo, I meant #7878a5 - almost like a light shade of the ink palette?

As for the black, I suppose you're right - it's hard to change an existing project away from black though.

[aminalhazwani]

sorry, that was a typo, I meant #7878a5 - almost like a light shade of the ink palette?

Gotcha, I'll look into it, thanks for the clarification!

[aminalhazwani]

Gonna move the request about a lighter ink shade to the firefoxux/photon-colors repo.

[aminalhazwani]

See issue FirefoxUX/photon-colors#5