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Multicolr Search Lab
Found via Kottke, Multicor Search Lab lets you search through Flickr's Creative Commons images by color. Nice!... (Posted October 23, 2008)
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Weekend Link Round-up
Scripts and Coding 1. From Bulletproof Box35 Essential jQuery Tutorials, Code Chunks and Plugins for Designers. 2. From devSnippets, 22 JavaScript Frameworks. Web Design and... (Posted October 5, 2008)
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mooColorFinder retrieves any websites color scheme
mooColorFinder is a tool to extract any color information from any website via their CSS files (inline or linked). mooColorFinder - retrieve all website colors... (Posted February 13, 2008)
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COPASO: Color Palette Tool from ColourLovers
COPASO is a color palette tool to help you create custom colour schemes. Create your own palette with the color tools or use the... (Posted January 11, 2008)
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What Its Color: find primary and complementary colors from an image
Whats Its Color: An image coloring solution feedback utility will evaluate an image and return the image's primary and complementary dominant colors. It will also... (Posted December 28, 2007)
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Colour Lovers introduces Patterns
Colour fan site COLOURlovers has introduced Colour Patterns. Color Design Blog / Patterns - More Ways to Play with Color. If you're not creative... (Posted December 14, 2007)
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Color Hunter: Generate Color Palettes from Images and More
Color Hunter is a color palette generator tool that lets you create or find color palettes from an image url, entering a keyword tag... (Posted December 9, 2007)
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Name that Color
There are a ton of color tools out there but there's something fun about adding color names in to the mix. Name that Color.... (Posted September 5, 2007)
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Find the Perfect Colors for your Website
Find the Perfect Colors for Your Website is a collection of color-related links from the psychology of color, how to choose them and tools for... (Posted July 5, 2007)
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Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List
The colour lovers over at Colour Lovers have put together a great color collection with the Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List by COLOURlovers.... (Posted July 1, 2007)
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18 Color Palettes from Butterflies
I have really been enjoying colour lovers blog postings lately, where they explore different sources of inspiration for colour palettes. Their latest is no... (Posted June 2, 2007)
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Palette Grabber: Firefox Extension
Palette Grabber is a Firefox extension that grabs the color palette of any web page and then exports it for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP... (Posted May 10, 2007)
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Colorschemes.org: all thing color
Color Schemes, Color Palettes, Color Theory - a really big list of all things color - online color tools, downloadable color scheme software, techniques and... (Posted May 5, 2007)
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Swatchify: The positively polychromatic palette
swatchify.com | Your brilliant color palette - a nifty new (to me at least) color tool to add to your collection (you do have... (Posted April 17, 2007)
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Complete Color Matching Guide
Complete Color Matching Guide - a lot of links to a lot of color articles and tools, including color basics, psychology and meaning of colors,... (Posted April 13, 2007)
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Grammy Award Winning Album Color Pallettes
All about colour site, COLOURlovers has a fun post on their blog pulling out the colour pallettes from the 2007 Grammy Award winning album... (Posted April 10, 2007)
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10 color tools to help you select a color pallette
10 Tools to help you select a Web 2.0 Color Palette cause you can never have too many color tool bookmarks!... (Posted April 6, 2007)
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genopal: for eye-pleasing colors
GenoPal Online is an online tool for creating color palettes, with both a free and a pro version available. The free version features over... (Posted March 26, 2007)
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Photoshop Color Block
"I have no color sense. What-so-ever. Usually, when it comes to having different colors on a given layout, I just slap white and black... (Posted December 12, 2006)
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500 colours with names, hex and RGB values
Colour lovers take note! 500 Named Colours with rgb and hex values is a nice and neat display of colour chips, with the corresponding... (Posted December 11, 2006)
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kuler: new color tool from Adobe
kuler is a brand new color tool from Adobe Labs that helps you explore, create and share color themes for web, design or other creative... (Posted November 22, 2006)
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On Color: round-up of tools for chosing colors
On Color is a great round-up of a variety of tools that are available for chosing colors and color palettes, both free and commercial... (Posted November 19, 2006)
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Instant Color Schemes from words
Instant Color Schemes takes a unique approach to generating color schemes. You just type in a descriptive word (or words), such as "blue sky"... (Posted November 15, 2006)
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I Like Your Colors Color Tool
I Like Your Colors is a color tool that grabs the color scheme from any url that you specify. It works pretty well, with... (Posted October 29, 2006)
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Complementary Color Palette Creator
Slayeroffice color palette creator is not new. It's been around probably a couple of years. It's a great tool, a worthy bookmark and worth... (Posted October 17, 2006)
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Color Palette Generator
Color Palette Generator will create a color palette from any online image. A great way to get a unique and fresh color palette.... (Posted October 5, 2006)
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ColorJack: Cool Color Scheme Tool
ColorJack: Studio (beta) is the coolest color tool I have come across in ages. Be sure to check out the Functions menu and have... (Posted September 4, 2006)
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Daily Color Scheme Public Beta Opens
Daily Color Scheme BETA- Your every-day color resource, we bring you daily-fresh colorschemes - is just opening up a public beta, so head on... (Posted September 3, 2006)
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High security password generator
Ultra High Security Password Generator - for those times when you absolutely, positively need it to be secure!... (Posted July 31, 2006)
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ColorWhore
ColorWhore - for all your color picking needs!... (Posted June 15, 2006)
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Color Schemes on Delicious
Hah! People actually bookmark colour schemes on delicious. Check them out del.icio.us/tag/ColorScheme... (Posted May 22, 2006)
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Color Wheel
Color Wheel - ver 2.0.1 - spin the color wheel and create a pallette. For all you color scheme needs.... (Posted April 25, 2006)
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Color Scheme Exercise
Color scheme challenged? The Color Scheme Exercise might be just what's needed. Exercise once a week to strengthen your color scheme skills.... (Posted April 15, 2006)
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Color Tool 2.0.1 Alpha
Color Tool 2.0.1 Alpha - nice color pallette tool with a nice set of features. I could play with this all day!... (Posted April 5, 2006)
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Generate a Color Palette from a Photo
Color Palette Generator - from any photo. Just upload your image and a complete color palette will be gerated from the colors in the photo.... (Posted January 7, 2006)
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ColorCombos
ColorCombos.com - Web Color Combinations Tool and Library - have I posted this already? Ah well, it's worth another. A must-bookimark site for any colour... (Posted January 3, 2006)
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500+ Colours
500 Named Colours with rgb and hex values - I think I've posted something similar to this before but this one is bigger ... and... (Posted November 26, 2005)
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Color Scheme
Steel dolphin Creative - Color Scheme tool - reminds me a lot of ColorImpact. Looks like a good tool and free to use.... (Posted November 21, 2005)
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Colourmod
ColourMod DHTML Colour Picker - nice looking colour tool. With a 'u' too.... (Posted October 19, 2005)
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100 Random Colors
100 Random Colors - Need a Color? - break your creative color block by having some color suggestions served up for you.... (Posted October 7, 2005)
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Color Palette Creator
Based on the technique Andy Clarke described recently, the color palette creator is a very cool method for setting out a color scheme for a... (Posted May 21, 2004)
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ColorCache
ColorCache Color Picker - A Color Picker and Palette Management Tool [via Geekgrrl]... (Posted March 9, 2004)
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ColorMatch Remix
An update for a color classic - ColorMatch Remix. Some nice predefined themes and the ability to make your own and export a swatch file... (Posted November 12, 2003)
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Color Picker Round-up
Web Graphics is back and today featuring a huge round-up of Color Pickers. If you've been looking for one, this is an excellent place to... (Posted August 21, 2003)
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4096 Color Wheel
4096 Color Wheel is a nice little color tool and free to down load to your own computer and use as a handy offline tool... (Posted August 2, 2003)
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Colour and Font Tools
Font Browser will display a listing of the fonts you have installed and provide a preview of them at different text sizes. Handy tool and... (Posted May 28, 2003)
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Eye Dropper
Nice, freeware, desktop colour-grabbing utility - Eye Dropper. From the author "EyeDropper excels at its primary task: picking the colour value from any pixel of... (Posted March 26, 2003)
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Color Blender
Spotted at GeekGrrl's, the Color Blender. You enter a starting hex and and ending one and then how many shades in between you'd like and... (Posted February 14, 2003)
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All about Color
handprint : color ... or as I would spell it ... colour :)... (Posted December 15, 2002)
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Colour Pickers
I love colour. I love playing with colour. I love putting colours together. Here are a few of my favourite places to play with colour:... (Posted November 3, 2002)
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