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Design Tip - web color for the rest of us
If you missed the color course in college or habitually spend a small fortune on paint tester cans only to throw recycle them, you can (unlike at the paint service desk at Home Depot) get really good color help online. On the web, there are professional color palettes from infinite sources to help you out. Here's a few unearthed from Fuzzy Future to help you find the perfect color match for your design project:
ColorBlender
You can slide the RGB buttons to create a core color which then automatically creates a coordinating palette.
DeGraeve
Input the URL of an image and the site will generate a lovely palette to match.
Kuler
Kuler from Adobe Labs helps you create endless colors and you always come out looking like a pro.
EasyRGB
Match your RGB values to real color paint lines (including Sherwin Williams), inks, fandecks, etc.
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ColorBlender
You can slide the RGB buttons to create a core color which then automatically creates a coordinating palette.
DeGraeve
Input the URL of an image and the site will generate a lovely palette to match.
Kuler
Kuler from Adobe Labs helps you create endless colors and you always come out looking like a pro.
EasyRGB
Match your RGB values to real color paint lines (including Sherwin Williams), inks, fandecks, etc.
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I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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jamjammo said 6:46PM on 4-12-2007
i just recently came across am amazing tool to use for creating swatches. it is flash based.
http://www.telecable.es/personales/alberto9/color/index.htm
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Hasan said 1:26PM on 4-13-2007
@ tools from colorsontheweb.com that I use, the Color Wizard and the Spin the Color Wheel...
http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp
http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/colorwheel.asp
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