“A designerís ëstyleí is made up of a number of different factors, though colour plays a large role. Everyone has their own method of coming up with a good colour scheme, which will inevitably affect the results.”
ColorMatch Remix
“This colorpicker is based heavily upon the code from ColorMatch 5k. I’ve made it more compatible ó it now works in Mozilla, and should also work in Opera, since I’m using a much better slider control. I’ve also added 3 more colors, bringing the total auto-generated colors to 9, and the ability to export your colors to a Photoshop color table.”
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Cataloging Colors
“What does it take to name a color? Manufacturers do it every day for their own convenience. It helps them keep track of what they’re making and how it’s selling and distinguishes one season from another. Apparently, it also makes colors more desirable, forming associations between random hues and exotic places and objects and values and flavors and anything else that might help sell. Still, there’s something presumptuous about assigning a title to a particular color, like naming a star or a species or a mountain.” Thanks Magnetbox
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Color Blender
“Pick a color value format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick the number of midpoints you’d like to see. The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.”
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QuickColor
“Ever found yourself in need of a quick color scheme ? But no inspiration at all… When that happens, i quickly launch my favorite www.colormatch.dk! And this is the Flashlet version of it. The original being written in JS, it wasn’t really portable ( ie not working in NS or OPERA ). So I thought this version might be handy… You’ll notice that it is strictly inspired by colormatch, in that it only find analogous colors. It was also a nice introduction to the color object in MX, for me.”
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4096 Color Wheel
“Hover over the wheel to view colors. Click to choose a web-smart color. Reload to clear… Once, long ago, monitors could display only a restricted number of colors without dithering or other color discrepancies. The traditional solution to this problem was to use a restricted color palette known as the Netscape 216 colors, browser-safe colors or the web-safe colors. In hexadecimal form, the web-safe colors are composed of three pairs of identical hexadecimal digits selected from 00, 33, 66, 99, cc, and ff; for example, #000000 is black, and#ffffff is white. Time passed, as it so frequently does, and new hardware supported thousands or millions of colors. People grew tired of the old 216 colors. They wanted more earth tones, more variety. The web-smart colors are those 4096 colors composed of any three pairs of identical hexadeximal digits (0-9 and a-f), such as #dd1188.”
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How To Select Perfectly Matching Color Combinations
“One of the most difficult tasks for visual communicators is being able to select harmoniously matching color combinations. Though we all feel that we have an innate capability to select colors appropriately, we have sadly realized how untrue this is in reality and how incredibly difficult it is to make good color matches without having any design background or preparation.”
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Color Harmonies
“Search for colors complements to your RGB values. Create color harmonies, combinations and themes. From your main (or background) color select trim and accents tones.”
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Annual Color Forecast
“Color communicates and it sells everything from products and services to ideas and environments. This helps explain why color forecasting has become such a vital process for so many organizations and industries. In normal times, color trends are evolutionary, changing gradually and subtly in step with cultural, social, economic and technological developments. But these are not normal times and, according to the color experts, the stresses that beset our society are having a rather direct influence on the direction of the color palette.”
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