Colors of the Social World (Wide Web) [Infographic + Video] by COLOURlovers. 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? What color are we? By looking at the more than 1 Million people who have used our Themeleon tool to design their Twitter Profile in the past 3 months, we were able to paint a picture of the world connecting colors to locations and profile data. *A little note regarding the "World vs. Click The Image Below for the High Res Version A Colorful Tour of the Themeleon World We took the colors from 100,000 profiles designed with Themeleon and geolocated them to the designers location. Colors of the Social Web from CHROMAom on Vimeo. Team Written by COLOURlover. For Firefox - Eyedropper, Color Picker and much more. Important - new version 3 Due to new Firefox add-on developer requirements and restrictions requiring all future add-on development to be done using WebExtensions technologies, ColorZilla for Firefox has been re-written from the ground up to comply with the new requirements.
This new version retains all the functionality, but there might be minor UI/UX and other differences. Your history and favorites palettes should be backed up under <Firefox Profile Folder>/colorzilla after the update. ColorZilla v3.3 has many improvements and fixes. See what's new. Please contact us to report any issues. 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. ColorZilla is also available as a Chrome extension. What's new New in ColorZilla 3.3 New in ColorZilla 3.0 New in ColorZilla 2.8. ColoRotate. RGB #810005 • RGB Chart & Multi Tool • Color • PerBang.dk.
ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox. Complementary Colour Swatches by `DigitalPhenom on deviantART. Color Wizard - Color Scheme Generator - Colors on the Web. Contrast-A: Find Accessible Color Combinations. Color Explorer • Free tools for working with digital colors. 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. I had so many flower pictures I wanted to share with you, but this is one of my favorites. Notice how the complimentary colors of green and red are present in nature. Nature is, of course, a great source for an earthy color palette.
Have you ever seen a Rainbow Eucalyptus tree? Now we plunge under the depths of the Solomon Islands. You’ll want to choose a variety of colors for your scheme. If you are not a diver, you should be! If you’d like to read more about color, check out Why Color is Critical. Technorati Tags: Design, Graphic Design, Color. Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer) (app) ColorSchemer | Instant Color Schemes. Unevolved Brands: Can you recognize your brand only by its color? by COLOURlovers. The Most Powerful Colors in the World by 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. [click to view in full size] Turns out the blue-berry doesn't fall far from the bush. While the initial reasoning for the colors chosen may be trivial, the impact that these dominant players now have in the web world will surely influence the smaller startups that want to share in the positive color associations created by their bigger siblings...
Would A Corporation By Any Other Color, Still Profit As Well? Color is an important part of any brand, but along with the actual name of a company... The Colors of 1 Million Brand Icons Uh-oh! Team. Infographic: Typography & Color in Web Design | Kyle Cai. Color of the year 2010. What the Hex? Beyond Pink and Blue: A Look at Gender Colors. 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. Click any portion to enlarge. Colors by Gender 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.
Blue Reigns Supreme – Both males and females like the color blue, which receives favor with 35% of female respondents and more than half of the male respondents. A Closer Look In 2007, Doctor Anya Hurlbert and Yazhu Ling created an experiment to explore how men and women differ in their perceptions of color. Results of the Experiment Color Naming: Men Keep It Simple. Color Theory Infographic - Josh's on-again off-again.
Colours In Cultures. How do colors affect purchases? 15 Hand Picked Color Palette and Color Scheme Generators. When it comes to online color palette and color scheme generators, the choice can be hard, as there are many tools out there that offer such functionality. At one point, I was tempted to list the 50+ generators that I know about, but then thought, this isn’t about making another "ultimate" list, what matters most are the tools that offer the functionalities required to unleash your creative juices. Color is the most significant factor that affects our mood and perception of any visual element, and making the right choice of a color combination is considered a priority, regardless where it will be used.
This roundup is about the online tools that will help you accomplish that, 15 to be exact, packed with features to make the process of generating color palettes, schemes, and themes a smooth, pleasant, and creative experience. 1. COPASO by ColourLovers 2. Kuler is Adobe’s online color themes generator, it’s an advanced and yet very simple tool to use. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 10. 11. 12. 13.
TheConversationPrism. Web Color Chart - Hexadecimal - by VisiBone. ColorSchemer | Instant Color Schemes. ColourMod » DHTML Color Picker - Free Dashboard Colour Picker. Create Color Schemes, Test Color Combinations - Colorspire. ColoRotate: Colors come to life in 3D. Color Theory @ ColorJack.
MoreCrayons - Welcome to moreCrayons. Colr.org. Color Hunter. Color Theory, Color Wheel and Combining Colors, Colors on the Web. Color Scheme Designer 3. ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox. Infographic of the Day: What Colors Mean Across 10 Cultures. Colors are probably the most obvious way that design varies across cultures (a theme that came up in our interview with Frog Design about designing for China).
But the funny thing is that for most designers and companies, those color sensibilities often don't rise past "Red is lucky in China; blue is soothing in the West. " That's naive, as this superb infographic by David McCandless and Always With Honor shows. The chart encompasses 10 different cultures, and 62 emotions (!!!). The cultures are represented by concentric rings, and the emotions are represented by slices of the circle. Thus, if you want to understand about Japanese color sensibilities, you read around the graph. And if you want to learn what colors mean "danger" across cultures, you just read vertically, down section 15: For a slideshow of McCandless's previous work, click here. Infographic: How to Use Colors in Graphic and Web Designing. Color Palette Generator.
Kuler - Adobe Free Color Picker. Color Explorer. Color in HTML. ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox. 0to255. Online Color Scheme Generator. Color Scheme Designer 3.