diff --git a/pyjecteur/common.py b/pyjecteur/common.py
index 31fa9a2..7db35fa 100644
--- a/pyjecteur/common.py
+++ b/pyjecteur/common.py
@@ -87,4 +87,21 @@ def blendLedBar(colors: List[Color],
             top_gap = gap - bot_gap
             return (([deduped[0]] * top_gap) + reduplicate(deduped, rep_nb) +
                     ([deduped[-1]] * bot_gap))
+        else:
+            # make the longest sequences longer
+            
+            # sorted_indices is a list of indices in [0, len(rep_nb)) with
+            # increasing rep_nb[i]
+            sorted_indices = sorted(range(len(rep_nb)), key = lambda n: rep_nb[n])
+            # TODO: make this less ugly
+            while True:
+                for i in reversed(range(len(rep_nb))):
+                    rep_nb[sorted_indices[i]] += 1
+                    gap -= 1
+                    if gap == 0:
+                        return reduplicate(deduped, rep_nb)
+
+
+
+