A Color a Day -

A color a day will… (take all your worries away?) Maybe not. 😅 Yet this will fill your screen with #ff11aa color for 12 hours in 4K resolution.
“A Color a Day” is a personal project where I will upload a random color every single day to YouTube for the next 11 years. These 4096 colors will be taken from the 12-bit color depth palette.

Why did I not choose from the 24-bit True Color standard?

(1) Because that’s 16,777,216 colors! One color a day will take almost 46,000 years to complete that palette. 🤯 I’m not sure if there will still YouTube by then. 😅

(2) The 24-bit palette has more color depth than the human eye can even recognize. Well, unless mantis shrimps will be watching these videos… 🦐😂

By comparison, with the 12-bit palette with 4,096 colors, “A Color a Day” will complete in “just” a little over 11 years. Now that’s livable. (And will fit in a single YouTube playlist.)

Started September 16, 2024, hello December 3, 2035!

Now, what do you think tomorrow’s shade will be? 🙄

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Today's color details:

Thursday, January 15, 2026

12-bit:
#f1a

24-bit equivalence:
#ff11aa
rgb(255, 17, 170)

This video was generated using FFmpeg along with the beauty of Linux Bash scripts.

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More information and references:

Color depth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_d...
Mantis shrimp vision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_...
FFmpeg: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg

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About us:

Our YouTube channel:    / @majal  

Our YouTube handle: @majal

Our YouTube playlists:
Night Light:    • Night Light by @majal  
Named HTML and CSS (X11) Colors:    • Named HTML/CSS Colors (X11) by @majal  
A Color a Day:    • A Color a Day (4096 colors in 11 years) by...  
Nature Lover:    • Nature Lover by @majal  

Our website: https://www.majlovesreg.one/

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Grateful for:

Genesis 1:3
And God said: “Let there be light.” Then there was light.

Psalm 36:9
By your light we can see light.