Colorco.de – a beautiful color schemer.
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This is a list some of the color tools or links that I find helpful or inspiring. Let me know if you have any others in the comments below.
COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles.
Wikipedia List of Colors are swatches taken from domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4. RGB values are given for each swatch because such standards are defined in terms of the sRGB color space. It is not possible to accurately convert many of these swatches to CMYK values because of the differing gamuts of the two spaces, but the color management systems built into operating systems and image editing software attempt such conversions as accurately as possible.
The Illusion of Colors. “Color only starts to exist when our perception systems produce the impression of ‘color’: light is perceived on the retina as a stimulus and is processed into a perception of color in our brain. In substance, colors are already illusions in themselves…”
Color Rotate. Colors in 3D.
Imgr is a free color tool for designers that allows users to upload an image and grab a number of colors from the image, then offer them to the user in an hexidecimal format or a downloadable swatch.
Design Seeds. For all those who love color.
Find color inspiration anywhere. Kuler® is a cloud-based application for making color themes using an iPhone or your browser.
