Want a better Color Scheme? Try Kuler
Posted by flexrays on June 27, 2007
I am really bad at choosing a color sheme for websites and flex components. I have tried building websites with colors which I thing will suit the purpose. But I have not been successful at this till now as my websites look awful.
When I was browsing through the web, I found a mention of Kuler on ScaleNine. This is what i wanted from a long time. I am not sure how many people will find Adobe’s Kuler interesting and useful, but it is indeed a very useful website to me. Adobe has made my life easier.
There is also a mention of other websites of the similar concept, Daily Color Scheme (http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com/) and Color Scheme Tool (http://www.steeldolphin.com/color_scheme.html).
Justin said
Yeah, Kuler is great, and the colour mixer is a really nice touch. Perhaps related to your needs, I’ve been working on an algorithm for generating a colour scheme from a loaded image: http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/flash/actionscript-3/colourutils-bitmapdata-extract-colour-palette/
I think the next step is definately a way of intelligently creating other colours around the base ones to build bigger or ‘tighter’ schemes.
I hadn’t come across scaleNine, but it looks interesting – thanks for the pointers!