The Project Under The Project

Agentic scaffolding: skills for autonomy, hooks for blockers, and a reliability constraint hierarchy for everything in between.

Amanda HintonJune 22, 2026code

Creating a Color Palette from an Image

This Spectrimage palette extractor started as a sidecar to image color analysis, but grew into its own feature.

Amanda HintonMay 1, 2026color, code, creative

Generating a Color Spectrum for an Image

Walkthrough of building the Chromaculture Spectrimage analyzer that extracts and displays the color composition of an uploaded image.

Amanda HintonApril 14, 2026color, code, creative

AI Glossary (WIP)

A quick list of common terms and their definitions, written as I was becoming familiar with artificial intelligence (AI).

Amanda HintonApril 1, 2026AI, code

Mathematical Moments

These aha moments from my mathematics education reveal a lot about how I learn and problem-solve.

personalAmanda HintonJanuary 21, 2021hobbies

Big Boots Type Design

Big Boots, a typeface designed by Amanda Hinton, is a playful, bottom-heavy take on a slab serif.

Pigment Hunt: Oakland, CA

Recap of an ochre hunt in the Oakland hills and subsequent paintmaking with wild pigments.

Amanda HintonDecember 3, 2018

Color Mixing: Salmon and Sage

Building a versatile limited palette with quin magenta, quin orange, and phthalo blue.

Amanda HintonNovember 29, 2018color

Ultramarine Blue

History of my favorite natural pigment.

Amanda HintonFebruary 14, 2018color

Caput Mortuum

History of my favorite natural pigment.

Amanda HintonJune 29, 2017color

Cadmium Red

Fun facts on the color red and the cadmium pigment.

Amanda HintonMay 26, 2017color

Ivory Black and Iron Oxide Black

Background on a pair of natural and synthetic black pigments.

Amanda HintonDecember 30, 2016color