May 30, 2007
Colour Inspiration Resources
Ever get a little stuck when it comes to choosing colours? Well, here are my top two picks for those in a colour jam:
Kuler: very nice and easy to use colour palette creator. If you already have a single colour to work from (say, for example you have your client’s logo colour and you want to build a colour theme around that), you can simply enter it’s value - HSV, RGB, CMYK, LAB, or HEX - and start blending, with numerous options to change hue/saturation, etc.
Color Blender: Not as sophisticated as Kuler, but very useful none the less. You can also download your colour palette for use in Photoshop or Illustrator.
How do you choose colours?
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Tara
http://www.colourlovers.com/trends/ is another good one, which as well as giving you colour palettes shows you the colours being used in contemporary magazines and websites.
May 30th, 2007
johno
Tara
Great link. I like the Magazine Colour palettes idea, and they have a great Colour Lovers blog too. Thank you.
May 30th, 2007
Beth Ellen
I have never used a color chooser and it probably shows. lol Well, I haven’t done much web design really.
These look like good tools to check out.
May 30th, 2007
Aaron :: miLienzo.com
I use a little program called ColorImpact which I find really useful. However, I dont think I can automatically save colour palettes into Photoshop or Illustrator so lots of copy and pasting involved.
May 30th, 2007
inspirationbit
I usually play with various tools, I listed them in my post on 8 Colour Resources, and also installed a number of colour Widgets on my Mac’s Dashboard - they are very cool.
Jun 1st, 2007
johno
Vivien
Thanks for the 8 Colour Resources link; I hadn’t seen that before. I’m off to take a look.
Jun 1st, 2007
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