Links tagged with “colour”
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How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations | Chartable
I’m not very good at colours and this is nicely explained.
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Eigengrau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
‘Eigengrau (German: “intrinsic gray”), also called Eigenlicht (“intrinsic light”), dark light, or brain gray, is the color seen by the eye in perfect darkness.’ #16161D. (via Stellar)
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iWantHue
Another colour palette-generating thing. Looks nice, although I did seem to keep getting palettes containing two or more very similar shades. (via Migurski)
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Chromatophobia: My Fear of Color: Observatory: Design Observer
Michael Bierut on his cluelessness about how to choose colours. I’m glad it’s not just me. (via @cityofsound)
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Solarized - Ethan Schoonover
I don’t often think “ooh, that’s a nice colour palette.” Sixteen colours “for use with terminal and gui applications”, lots of thought behind it, and lots of implementations. (via Tecznotes)
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Into The Abyss: Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness
Fun look at how so many Hollywood films use very similar computer-adjusted colour palettes these days. (via @matlock)
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Colour Contrast Check - snook.ca
Handy and nicely-done tool for checking the contrast of colour combinations when designing websites.
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Developer Color Picker
Quite handy, although I wish it gave the option to display the Color Values in CSS friendly hex too. (via Daring Fireball)
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ColorSchemer - Online Color Scheme Generator
Simple way of generating twelve complementary colours.
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Color Combinations | Color Schemes | Color Palettes
The ‘Combo Tester’ provides a way of viewing up to eight colours together, and automatically creating complementary ranges of up to eight colours.
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ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps
Handy tool for making color ranges for use on maps, via that Oakland Crimespotting heat maps post.
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : bgcolor follies
Over a couple of years I’ve collected a folder full of links to sites that make this careless mistake with the aim of writing just such a post. Now no need. (via Daring Fireball)
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ColourLovers Coup.0 :: Colour Lovers
Odd but interesting and useful site for sharing colour palettes, marred only by over-busy design and annoying Flash. (via Haddock)
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ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox
Another colour scheme generator. I need all the help I can get.
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Color Scheme Generator 2
There are loads of these around, but this seems a nice example.
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ColorMatch 5K :: the original
complicated colour scheme generator (crashed my browser once though)
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Color Blender
Eric Meyer’s nifty colour blender