Chromacode. Over the holiday period, inspired by the iconic Blue Monday cover, I created a thing called Chromacode.

Chromacode is a visual identification system that translates the title of a project into a single horizontal band of colour. Each character in the title is mapped to a bar, arranged from left to right to form a compact, readable signature.

The system treats language as structure rather than text. Vowels and consonants follow different colour rules, while spaces and punctuation create pauses in the sequence. When a vowel follows a consonant, the bar is stacked, encoding the transition between sounds as a layered mark rather than a single tone.

Chromacode is deterministic: the same title will always generate the same colour pattern. While no two titles produce identical results, titles with similar rhythms or structures often share visual qualities. The result is not a logo or illustration, but a repeatable code — a quiet visual fingerprint that can be read, reproduced, and recognised without being explicitly decoded.

You can see it in action in my site.

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