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What is a Pantone and how do you use it?

Pantone is a corporation created by Pantone Matching System (PMS), is a systems that allow the users to identify the colors that were used in an impression, by a code. In other words, it is a proprietary system of equalization of colors.
Pantone produces what we now as the “Pantone Guide”, that shows an example of [...]

[ More ] November 2nd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Color |

Palette Man: Testing colors palettes

Palette Man a color generator, that allows the Web Designers interact with each other. You’ll be able to choose 5 colors, within 256 available options. Watch them interact!
Source: Vecindad Gráfica

[ More ] October 10th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Color, Resources |

EMERGY-C, the color palette that saves Watts

Jon Doucette made a research, in which he concluded that using the 6 colors from above in a web site, we would save the same amount of money like if google was black.

The colors are:
#822007 (brick red)
#000000 (black)
#b2bbc0 (grey)
#19472a (green)
#3d414c (cobalt)
#ffffff (white)
Fuente: Vecindad Gráfica

[ More ] October 3rd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Color, Curiosities |

Color Palette in seconds

For many designers it’s sometime a pain in the a** when our designers want really “exotic colors” for their designs. Thinking about this, here I present you with two very useful tools for color blending.
 
ColorMatch.dk

ColorJack.com

[ More ] September 19th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Color, Resources |

Your Pantone, according to your date of birth…

The web site Colostrology.com, patrocinated by Pantone Inc. is offering this information. According to your date of brith, they tell you what your Pantone is.
Source: Inspiration Bit

[ More ] September 17th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Color, Curiosities |

Monitor calibration and color selection

For the graphic designers is really important that our designs turn out to have the precise colors that we have on the screen, this is why I highly recommend the article about Monitor calibration and color selection from Instituto de Arte Visuales {Visual Arts Institute}

Source: Instituto de Artes Visuales {Visual Arts Institute}

[ More ] September 16th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Color |

Color tool list in the web

As I was surfing around in diverse pages, I found this really cool site called: Blog Vecindad Gráfica. The graphic design neighboorhood}. Which presents an amazing list of tools that turn out to be very useful when it comes the time to choose a color for your design. If you want to know them, you [...]

[ More ] September 16th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Color |

RGB or CMYK?

When you open Illustrator or Photoshop to create a new file, one of the first things the program is going to ask you will be the Color Mode that you wish to use in your design. The two options you’ll be able to see will be: RGB or CMYK.
Well then, let’s see what these acronyms [...]

[ More ] September 16th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Color, Photo Manipulation |

5 Priceless Design Resources

Wikimedia Commons
In need of some icons? Check out the sweet collection (1 2 3 4) over at Wikimedia Commons. There are heaps of other stuff as well, in total over 1.3 million files.

[ More ] May 23rd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Color, Resources |

tlbox: Tools for Web Designers and Programmers

tlbox is a Web Site that shows us a great list of tools for Programmers and Web Desginers. Some of the categories of tools that you will be able to find are: Color, CSS, Tutorials, Typography, HTML, Images, etc.
Source: Vecindad Gráfica

[ More ] May 1st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Color, Resources, Typography |

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