# color-motion

Builds motion design palettes in OKLCH, fixes muddy CSS gradient midpoints, and resolves gamma shift issues in After Effects video renders.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2800 installs · ★ 161
- Author: iart-ai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/iart-ai/motion-design-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/color-motion/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-06-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/color-motion

## What it does

The skill constructs restrained palettes using one primary hue, one accent, and two or three neutral shades. It interpolates transitions in OKLCH or Lab spaces instead of standard sRGB, eliminating the desaturated gray midpoints common in raw color blending. Output snippets deliver multi-radial mesh gradients with grain overlays and typed CSS `@property` transitions.

For video workflows, it enforces a five-step grading sequence from exposure to split-toning and final unity. Grading or checking color directly in QuickTime is a mistake because AVFoundation applies an uncalibrated gamma shift around 1.96. The skill configures SDR projects in `Rec.709 Gamma 2.4` at 16 bpc depth and requires explicit color tags on export.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill color-motion -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/color-motion/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/color-motion/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill color-motion -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/color-motion/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill color-motion -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/color-motion/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install iart-ai/motion-design-skills color-motion
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/color-motion/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill color-motion -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/iart-ai/motion-design-skills --path skills/color-motion
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/color-motion/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill color-motion -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/iart-ai/motion-design-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/color-motion/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build restrained motion palettes with OKLCH coordinates
- eliminate muddy gray midpoints in CSS gradients
- fix washed-out gamma shifts in After Effects exports
- enforce correct order for video color grading

## Example prompts
- Build an animated mesh gradient background in OKLCH with subtle grain
- Fix the washed-out colors and gamma shift on my After Effects render
- Create an OKLCH color transition for a button hover using CSS @property

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: color-motion
description: This skill should be used when the user asks to "build a color palette for a motion piece", "make a gradient background", "animate a color transition", "interpolate colors smoothly", "fix muddy/gray gradients", "convert colors to OKLCH", "color-grade a video for mood", "fix washed-out After Effects renders", "gamma shift", "Rec.709 vs sRGB", "colors shifted after rendering", or "match preview to final video". Covers palette construction, gradients, perceptual interpolation (OKLCH/Lab), grading order, and video/render color management.
version: 0.1.0
---

# Color in Motion

Choose, pair, and animate color for motion design: building restrained palettes, constructing gradients that read as premium, interpolating colors in perceptually-uniform spaces, and grading a piece for mood and consistency. Produces palettes with exact OKLCH/hex values, gradient CSS/code, and transition parameters.

## When to use

- Picking or pairing a palette for a motion or video piece.
- Building gradient backgrounds (mesh, noise, animated drift).
- Animating color transitions (button states, theme switch, loaders).
- Grading a video for mood, or fixing dull/gray gradient interpolation.
- Fixing washed-out, gamma-shifted, or platform-inconsistent After Effects renders, and choosing correct per-platform export/color tags.

## Core techniques

### 1. Build a restrained palette

Limit hues. A strong motion palette is **1 primary + 1 accent + 2-3 neutrals**. Derive contrast and depth from lightness and chroma, not from adding more hues. Extra hues fight for attention and read as amateur.

In dark scenes, make the accent pop with **low-to-moderate chroma and high lightness** rather than maximum saturation — a blown-out saturated accent vibrates and looks cheap on dark backgrounds.

Use OKLCH to reason about color: `oklch(L C H)` where L is perceptual lightness (0-1), C is chroma (0 ≈ 0.37 max), H is hue angle (0-360). Holding L and C constant while rotating H gives hues of genuinely equal visual weight — impossible to do reliably in HSL.

```
Primary:   oklch(0.62 0.19 264)   /* confident blue */
Accent:    oklch(0.78 0.17 50)    /* warm amber, lighter so it pops */
Neutral-0: oklch(0.97 0.005 264)  /* near-white, faint hue tint */
Neutral-1: oklch(0.55 0.01 264)
Neutral-2: oklch(0.18 0.015 264)  /* near-black, same hue family */
```

Tinting neutrals slightly toward the primary hue (tiny chroma) unifies the frame; pure gray neutrals next to colored elements look disconnected.

### 2. Interpolate in OKLCH or Lab — never raw sRGB

Linearly interpolating two colors in sRGB passes through a desaturated, often gray or muddy midpoint (blue->yellow goes through gray; blue->red through muddy purple). Perceptual spaces (OKLCH, OKLab, CIE Lab) keep midpoints vivid and lightness even.

CSS gradients support this natively:

```css
/* Vivid, even midpoint */
background: linear-gradient(in oklch, #2b6cff, #ffb02e);

/* Control hue path around the wheel for two-stop gradients */
````
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