snakesandearthquakes:

What time is it? It’s “Zoe Gets Easily Fixated And Assigns Herself Weird Projects” time!

This particular project was sparked while reading Homestuck and noticing a passing mention of there being not just twelve signs in troll society, but a total of forty-eight, according to Karkat in this pesterlog! So forty-eight signs means forty-eight blood colors. We already know that there is a pattern to the hex codes for the twelve trollkids’ blood colors—with the exceptions of Nepeta’s and Kanaya’s, they’re placed at thirty-degree intervals around the HSV spectrum (Karkat’s blood mutation, incidentally, lies primarily in the fact that its color is the only one among the trollkids’ whose value is set at 100. The rest of them have much lower values. Excitement!).

Extrapolating from that, we will find forty-eight colors spaced at about 7.5 degree intervals around the spectrum. Since my HSV sliders (I use GIMP, by the way) don’t like fractions, I alternated between seven- and eight-degree intervals. This seems like a good time to mention that I’m not putting this forth as the be-all, end-all of the troll hemospectrum; there are probably other people who could do this way better than me, with more precise calculations that result in more precise colors. As it is, these are the colors as near as I could figure them. Also I was operating under the assumption that by the time the trollkids roll around, the sign of the Signless has been adopted as a standard for those wishing to keep their blood anonymous?

If anyone’s interested in more details about my insane calculations, drop me a line and I will be more than happy to discuss them! Also if anyone wants me to just give them the hex codes for all the colors I will certainly do so. Aaand if you feel the need to argue about any of this with me, I will certainly try, but most likely I will just be obtuse at you.

Someone needs to stop me from having access to a computer.