Archive for the ‘Color’ Category

Pictures are also information

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

It’s true that we have a lot of writing information on web sites. But the time comes when we need graphical illustrations, and that’s when many designers go wrong.

Sometimes when we want to be “more original” or simply because we forget the amount of information an image can have. This image will be a compliment with the text, therefore the image needs a certain level of connection with the text as a whole.

Sometimes the images we use are just to catch our customers eyes. Just bare in mind when doing your upcoming designs that images will be in the 85% of the cases, the first impression your public will retain.

A single image is worth a thousand words.

The color thesaurus

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

This time around I would like to introduce you to A Color Thesaurus. Oh yes! You’ll see the synonyms and the antonyms of the colors. This tool was designed by Hewlett Packard. You only need to write down the color.

A different color everyday

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

daily color

With daily color scheme you’ll learn to combine different colors daily. It’s available in many different formats like: Photoshop, CSS. Illustrator, .Zip, HTML. Even though this is a beta version, I thought it was really interesting to share with you all.

Get the color palette from pic2color

Monday, January 14th, 2008

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This interesting web will let us get a color palette from the image we’re using, just by adding the image URL to this page, and that’s it!

Source: Cubik

20 tools to work with color

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

mashable.jpg

Sometimes colors tend to become a little of a headache, when you try to adapt them into your design. So this is why I advice you to go to the Mashable list, with an amazing compilation of colors 2.0

Pantones

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Source: Digilicious

Hexadecimal colors

Monday, November 12th, 2007

paleta de color

Colors Lovers is presenting a very long list of colors with it’s colors in respective hexadecimal codes, which can be used for both HTML or CSS.

Source: Excentris