Searching for Colors

As most of the designers are working on concepts for a big project, I thought some tools here and there might help the brainstorming. This week’s design share are a few color palette finders.

 

Coolors

The “Explore” tab shows user-generated color palettes. Once you create an account on the website, you can favorite/bookmark color palettes for your reference on any project. When you click to view one, the palette will display full browser-screen and show hex code, CMYK and RGB. You can adjust them, reorder them, or lock them down while adjusting a single color.

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Color Hunt

The landing page shows user-generated color palettes to choose and edit as you see fit. I like this website for the way it shows the palettes — from largest, probably primary color to the least used (maybe the text color).

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Colour Lovers 

This is a collection of user-generated color palettes, patterns and swatches. The website’s content is more complex and filled with more visual variety than the other color websites.

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Colormind

This website shows AI-generating color palettes. The AI picks out a color palette for the day, and it also selects from various things in culture, like films, paintings or video games, and churns out an elegant color palette from each. It’s an interesting tool if maybe not so useful for our design work.

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PANTONE®

Don’t forget PANTONE®! The writings under Color Intelligence are interesting, and I like to check the Color of the Year and what is said about it.

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Earth Day passed, but really, every day should be Earth Day. This week’s sign-off is a recommendation to watch One Planet, the new BBC TV series narrated by David Attenborough, available on Netflix Streaming:

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From the intro of Episode 1:

“When human beings built their first settlements, some 10,000 years ago, the world around them, on the land and in the sea, was full of life. For generations, this stable Eden nurtured our growing civilizations. But now, in the space of just one human lifetime, all that has changed. In the last fifty years, wildlife population have on average declined by 60 percent. For the first time in human history, the stability of nature can no longer be taken for granted. But the natural world is resilient. Great riches still remain. And with our help the planet can recover. Never has it been more important to understand how the natural world works and how to help it.”

 

Hope you enjoyed!

– Jane