i.e., wherever possible, inject genre, inspiration, or any relationship of signficiance.

Quantum Chromodynamics – What Makes the Strong Force Strong?
The video that catalyzed the creation of vagari.

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
A wonderful series about history, philosophy, and the meaning of meaning; it provided the energy needed to publish vagari.

Arrival: A Response To Bad Movies
An awakening to the importance of linguistics, story, non-zero-sum games, and ultimately, the craft of combining good ideas.

i.e., acknowledge that color (and design itself) is a system of communication with an evolutionary history.

i.e., Chaos is a mathematical concept; an intrinsic pattern of the universe that arises in non-linear systems.

Creativity is not a some special, dualistic force ("the muse,") that only humans possess. Creativity is Chaos—it's an emergent property that originates from the of the embrace of—and the eventual obsevraiton of—sensitive starting conditions in dynamical systems (e.g., human minds), coupled with, but not limited to:

• curiosity in the unknown, and an deep desire to understand.
• courage to challenge the status quo, and everlasting itch to explore.
• humility in allowing the process to unfold, and willingness to fail.

i.e., Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable; evolution acts on mutations during replication of existing entities.

Style is analogous to the concept of fitness in evolution applied, when applied to culture—it's easy to think that fashion (evolution) is a forward march that makes better and better styles (organisms). Instead, fashion is a "bumbling mess that just gets lucky sometimes," i.e.:

1. Expression (and imitation) of a style is the primary way that it is replicated.
2. The primary niche to be filled is in the domain self-expression, with a sub-domain of functionality.
3. Thus, a relatively good (fit) style is one that allows the users to express something about themselves (color), while maintaining functionality (design grammar), in order for expression to be noticed by others.
4. Hence, vagari's primary use case: a color scheme; further design principles are simply means to create a more cohesive and deep meaning behind the selection of color.

If the hypothesis of vagari is correct, then in a sense fashion is discovered. I.e., the most fashionable style of the time is found via somewhat random exploration. However, in a sense fashion also invented, because ultimately style (the result of the process of fashion) is created as a means to out-replicate competing styles.

i.e., the "Swedish number for six", or the maximum number of objects in focus at a given time.

Funny, but the sex principle is more than just a joke—it's primarily about dealing with cognitive overhead. As a whole, design must be simple and sexy, not minimal and mundane. This principle is core to vagari and represents the adherence to the selfish memes/genes theory of replicators with unbounded evolution, i.e.:

1. Something is sexy if it is attractive or exciting, and in the realms of ideas, desire for replication.
2. Communication is all about replicating an idea inside another mind, but it's not perfect—mutations occur.
3. Thus, a good design is one that is enticing, welcoming a new idea, with minimal (but not zero) mutations.
4. Hence, the adoption of, and iteration on, well known and attractive design principles:
   • Understanding the Principles of Design
     • 6 Golden Rules Of Layout Design
     • 8 Important Composition Tips
     • Breaking Down the Principles of Design
     • Exploring the Gestalt Principles of Design
   • The 60–30–10 Rule
     • Dominance of Two Colors
   • How to Break Rules

The essential idea here involves minimizing the impact of anything that stresses working memory, i.e.:

• Maximum of 6 objects in a scene, i.e., 6 things that require increased discernment.
• Maximum of 3 layers to an object, i.e., 3 variations, choices... or better... dimensions to an object.

Ideally, properly embracing this principle ought to result in an easier to manage punctuated equilibrium between abstraction and coupling (a tradeoff that exists in idea-space as well as code) thanks to the embrace of evolution, powered by sexual selection of interested minds.

i.e., imagination is the key to cooperation; shared exploration of fiction is how we create useful norms.

Essentially, if you could not tell already, story (meaning) is a huge factor in the philosophy of vagari. Anyone can make a color scheme, and many others will be better for certain people in certain contexts. In the end, vagari is not trying to be the best, or the most popular, color scheme (functionality/appeal is are merely useful qualitieis).

Instead, at it's core, vagari is trying to be the most meaningful color scheme. vagari assumes that most other color schemes do not allow the art of color to transcend functionality. The solution is to allow the users to say something about themselves—a reason to choose, share, and improve this color scheme, rather than any of the other adequate (and exceptional) color schemes out there.

Related principles and concepts not already mentioned:

1. Once Upon A.I.
2. The Angle's Cocktail
3. What would you do, even if you knew you would fail?

Ideally, properly embracing this principle ought to compel users to want to proudly display and share vagari, resulting in a positive feedback loop of meaning via the injection of new ideas, provided by new users.

i.e., a dance involving computational irreducibly, information, and chaos.

Particularly, vagari's philosophy is obsessed with complex systems. Because of this, the embrace of chaos is at the core of the design philosophy. vagari is not looking for the answer—vagari is looking for an answer; always open to a new answer, or a new way of approaching problems.

The starting point of many decisions usually draw upon inspiration from the apparent universality of various mathematical concepts or patterns (e.g., fractals and holomorphic dynamics), hopefully resulting in the injection of mathematical meaning (e.g., the logistic map and Feigenbaum constants for some contrast ratios).

"There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion." – Donella H. Meadows

Ideally, properly embracing this principle means a embarking on constant exploration of alternative approaches via the willingness depart from the respectable (but not holy) constraints initially set by (ideally) interesting maths.

id est, ignoramus et ignorabimus, tamen id conamur
     i.e., we do not know and will not know, yet we try regardless.

The above phrase is the best simple representation of the core philosophy of vagari.

Perhaps, the two most relevant books to the formation of this principle:

1. The Beginning of Infinity, by David Deutsch
2. The Network State, by Balaji Srinivasan

One might be tempted to ask: "why so does vagari seem so… pretentious?"

Well, to be frank: vagari is pretentious; it's kind of essential to success of the project, actually. To conjecture:

projects like vagari ought to grow to represent a digital flag of some order. Design frameworks ought to move past representing brands, and move towards being a means to virtue signal the digital community (nation) you are a part of. Overtime, frameworks should to evolve like languages, and be less universal (diversity ).

Ideally, shared participation in this fiction will hopefully manifest a reality among the participants. The philosophy of vagari is built upon the idea that collaboration is the ultimate force for discovery. Sure, one node in a network may be the seed, or the spark, for a cascade of activation... but it's the activity in the networks' activity that creates the gestalt, i.e., the unique property of a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.

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worthy mentions: Nord, Solarized, Gruvbox