Color Theory

Archive for February 2007

COLOURlovers

Posted by: Valerie on: February 24, 2007

COLOURlovers is a web site that aims to follow color trends, while also providing ways for visitors to create their own colors and color combinations. You can also read up on news and helpful articles related to color, as well as discuss or vote on colors and palettes created by others.

Behr Paints Explore Color Tool

Posted by: Valerie on: February 19, 2007

Paint company Behr offers a color exploration tool on their web site, allowing you to select and experiment with their paint colors. The Explore Color tool lets you browse or search for specific colors, adjust them to just the right shade, and then try out combinations on sample home photos. There’s even an [...]

Flickr Color Selectr

Posted by: Valerie on: February 7, 2007

The Flickr Color Selectr lets you choose a color by adjusting the slider or color selector, and then it automatically loads Flickr images that contain that exact color. It’s really quite fun to play with, and is a great way to discover new photos — like the one shown — and photographers on the Flickr [...]

Adobe Labs Kuler

Posted by: Valerie on: February 4, 2007

Kuler is a Flash-based color tool from Adobe, that lets you create color schemes based on basic color theory. Start with a base color and choose from different schemes, or choose your own colors to make custom combinations. You can also view the gallery for others’ color scheme creations, which you can also [...]

Colorful Beginnings

Posted by: Valerie on: February 3, 2007

This blog is about color, plain and simple. Colors on their own or combined with others. Natural or manmade colors. Hues, shades, tints. Color theories.
My aim is to share how fun noticing and playing with color can be. I’ll post links to cool books or web sites about color, software [...]