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Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by theandrewbailey » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 3:00 PM UTC

Paletton – Color Scheme Designer
paletton.com

Re: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by Alupis » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 3:02 PM UTC

I, being a color-deaf programmer, have used this and their previous version (which is very very good) extensively when doing anything graphical.

I highly recommend the service.

Re: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by antjanus » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 4:16 PM UTC

I was about to comment on how it looks just like Color Scheme Designer and when I went to the site I was redirected to paletton, I'm very happy to see this project alive again! =D

Re: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by moron4hire » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 4:17 PM UTC

I've had this in my bookmarks as "Color Scheme Designer 3" for at least a year. It's a great tool, if you know how and when to use it. But if you use the "Examples" tab to see what the colors would look like on a page, you'll see just how "stock template" tweaking nothing but colors can look. Use sparingly, use for ideas, don't use it as gospel.

Re: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by thisjepisje » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 4:28 PM UTC

Reminds me of Adobe's Kuler: https://kuler.adobe.com

Re: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by bellerocky » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC

antjanus wrote: post #3

I was about to comment on how it looks just like Color Scheme Designer and when I went to the site I was redirected to paletton, I'm very happy to see this project alive again! =D

I don't see that site redirect[1]. I have the Color Schemer Studio app installed on my Mac, I hope they update it with some of these new ideas. I use this app all the time.

[1] http://www.colorschemer.com/

Re: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by theandrewbailey » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

bellerocky wrote: post #6

antjanus wrote: post #3

I was about to comment on how it looks just like Color Scheme Designer and when I went to the site I was redirected to paletton, I'm very happy to see this project alive again! =D

I don't see that site redirect[1]. I have the Color Schemer Studio app installed on my Mac, I hope they update it with some of these new ideas. I use this app all the time. [1] http://www.colorschemer.com/

That appears to be something different, and I am not aware of Color Scheme Designer having an app. The redirect is at http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Re: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by eriktrautman » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 5:00 PM UTC

I, too, really enjoy using this tool to design color schemes. As a frequent user (who's probably not using it correctly), two minor suggestions to improve the experience:

1. I wish the "Base RGB" entry field was bigger or more emphasized because I still find myself poking around the page for a bit looking for it after a long absence from the site. My primary use case is grabbing a pixel color of something I like on the web with my Color Picker add-on and trying to see if it becomes a useful scheme. 2. I also wish there was a sort of "click to add the hex code to your keyboard" in the scheme viewer... I don't like having to hover to get the title and then manually typing it.

It's a great site (I use it in my lesson on color as well[1]), many thanks for putting it together!

[1]: http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/web-design-basics/understand...

Re: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by artursapek » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 5:13 PM UTC

The shareable URL has a bug - when I re-open the same URL I've generated the top-right and bottom-left colors are swapped.

Re: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

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Post by allochthon » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 5:25 PM UTC

I don't do anything in graphics, so maybe the UI is fairly standard or at least recognizable to someone in that field, but it struck me as being different and interesting.