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When a social network like Twitter allows a user to select a theme to represent themselves in the digital world, that user is choosing to identify their digital persona with colors... And we wanted to look at who chooses what colors... If the world is made up of people and those people have a color preference... what then is the color of Texas? What color are mothers?
Business Blog / Colors of the Social World (Wide Web) [Infographic + Video] by COLOURlovers :: COLOURlovers
ColorZilla for Firefox is an add-on that assists web developers and graphic designers with color related tasks - both basic and advanced. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can analyze the page and inspect a palette of its colors. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.
for Firefox - Eyedropper, Color Picker and much more
As digital artists and designers it is sometime difficult to mix and match that perfect color scheme and have them conveniently available before you. Complementary Colour Swatches by ` DigitalPhenom are a excellent series of well thought out color swatches that are easy to utilize directly from your swatch palette. Thank you for sharing. ( Featured by ` znow-white )
Complementary Colour Swatches by `DigitalPhenom on deviantART
It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you, based on your color's complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations. The color wizard also has a randomize function that lets you generate color schemes you might not have thought of on your own. The first version of the Color Wizard was completed back in 2000 as an ASP application. With version 3, it has been converted to a flash based application.
Color Wizard - Color Scheme Generator - Colors on the Web
Simply put, ColorExplorer is an online toolbox for working with color palettes. Being a little more elaborate, the current site is the result of evolvement on my acclaimed ColorMatch 5K project dating back as far as 2001. With ColorExplorer you can quickly and easily create, manage and evaluate color palettes for use in graphic design, web designs, layouts, and much more. You may also opt for a paid registration to get unlimited number of palettes to save but most important of all; to support this free project! Read more ... ColorExplorer was made by Kim Jensen of Port80.biz as a fun spare time project.
Color Explorer • Free tools for working with digital colors
Creative Curio » Nature’s Color Palette
Nature provides some of the most striking and beautiful color palettes imaginable! You don’t have to look far to find great inspiration. Flowers especially can give you such a varied and bright color scheme that you will never run out of ideas.
ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. Work with a dynamic visual color wheel, instantly explore harmony relationships and even let ColorSchemer Studio intelligently suggest color schemes for you! ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color matching application for your Mac. Discover exciting new color possibilities and explore endless creative inspiration with the same ease and simplicity that you love about your Mac.
(app) ColorSchemer | Instant Color Schemes
Business Blog / Unevolved Brands: Can you recognize your brand only by its color? by COLOURlovers :: COLOURlovers
Unevolved Brands is "A progressive study on brand & logo simplification by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative ." Graham strips some of the most recognizable brands in the world (and web) down to their simplest form leaving us with a new perspective on color's place in identity design. Some takeaways from this study: color and the positioning of elements makes all the difference when it comes to creating effective visual branding; a unique color scheme will help ingrain a brand; and games are a lot of fun. www.colourlovers.com David Sommers has been loving color as COLOURlovers' Blog Editor-in-Chief for the past two years.
Business Blog / The Most Powerful Colors in the World by COLOURlovers :: COLOURlovers
When we released our report on the colors of the social web , based on data analyzed by our Twitter theme tool, we were surprised that blue was such a dominant color in people's profile designs. Was Twitter's default color influencing their design decisions? Or is blue really THE most popular and dominant color online? ...We decided to look at the colors in the brands from the top 100 sites in the world to see if we could paint a more colorful picture.
Effective learning through optimal use of Typography and Color plays a critical web design technique and means a lot to the audience and visitor retention on your websites.
Infographic: Typography & Color in Web Design | Kyle Cai
It goes beyond culture. There is science behind the gender-relationships when it comes to colors. A study by John Hallock compares the color preferences among various demographics and takes into account information collected from 22 countries. Our friends at KissMetrics put together this informative infographic that tears down the gender barriers to reveal what really goes on in visualizations. The Color Purple - The most notable gender difference can be seen in the color purple. The study reported that 23% of female participants chose purple as their favorite.
Beyond Pink and Blue: A Look at Gender Colors | Techi.com
Order an amazing full colour print of this image EXTRA: A short photo story about how a version of this image ended up as the 91st and final cover design of our book, Information is Beautiful. Yes, 91 versions!
Colours In Cultures
For retailers, shopping is the art of persuasion. Though there are many factors that influence how and what consumers buy. However, a great deal is decided by visual cues, the strongest and most persuasive being color. When marketing new products it is crucial to consider that consumers place visual appearance and color above other factors such as sound, smell and texture.