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Another colour tool

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

This one is a bit different from the colour tools I usually point to, but it is loads of fun to try. Idée’s Multicolr Search Lab using Flickr will find pictures in Flickr which contain the colour(s) you picked from their colour swatch. Need pictures that have two different tones of blue and some orange? […]

Colour toys

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

There was a pointer in Life Hacker towards a web site for colour schemes called colr.org which, as of this moment, doesn’t seem to be working. Or at least I can’t seem to reach it, anyways.
Never fear, though, the commenters in Life Hacker point towards web sites that actually do work:
ColorBlender is a fun tool […]

Another online colour tool

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Apparently, I have a fetish for online colour picking tools, as I keep blogging about these. Actually, I like them because they make my life easy, and isn’t that what a good tool should do? Here’s another one of these tools which I don’t think I’ve mentioned before: Color Schemer’s Online Scheme Generator. This handy […]

Red can impair your performance

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Here’s an interesting study that may have some implications on what colours we choose for our designs: Color and Psychological Functioning: The Effect of Red on Performance Attainment by Andrew J. Elliot, Markus A. Maier, Arlen C. Moller, Ron Friedman and Jörg Meinhardt, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 136, no. 1, pp. 154-168, 2007.
This […]

Colour use in articles

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

I just had to reprint an article on the office colour printer. The black and white version erased parts of the figures, as the authors had used very pale colours (light yellow and light turquoise, I think) for some of the columns. It’s interesting to note that all of the columns are delineated with a […]

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