Color Mechanics In UI Kits

In this article, Adel Khamatov shares a model of color mechanics that he came up with during research on developing UI kits and illustrates an approach to solving related problems with best practices.I am currently working on research linked to a project on creating a complete guide to developing a UI kit as a technical system. In the first stage, I collected technical decisions, requirements, and possible solutions by analyzing open-source and proprietary UI kits. My initial plan was to to dive deep into every detail after collecting the main decisions that were made in dozens of such UI kits. At my main workplace, an open-source UI kit is used under the hood. I soon noticed that it was difficult to understand its API when it came to anything related to colors. I had many questions: Which tasks does the kit’s API solve? Which concepts does its API implement? How is the API implemented? What should I know before starting to implement such mechanics in a UI kit from scratch? What are the best practices? I decided to temporarily interrupt my data collection and dive deep into this topic. In this article, I want to share some things that I’ve