Links tagged with “colours”
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How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations | Chartable
I’m not very good at colours and this is nicely explained.
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Eigengrau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
‘Eigengrau (German: “intrinsic gray”), also called Eigenlicht (“intrinsic light”), dark light, or brain gray, is the color seen by the eye in perfect darkness.’ #16161D. (via Stellar)
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iWantHue
Another colour palette-generating thing. Looks nice, although I did seem to keep getting palettes containing two or more very similar shades. (via Migurski)
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The Sartorialist: On the Street….London Color Story, London
Some Londoners appear to be dressing themselves after that Hollywood movie teal-and-orange colour grading craze.
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My First Week with the iPhoneBehind the Curtain | Behind the Curtain
I’ve seen this ecstatic report by a blind person about their new iPhone linked to from a few places. Forget your iPhone-fatigue and skip to the last few paragraphs where he describes using an app (Color ID) which speaks the colours the device’s camera “sees”. Beautiful.
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Letter posters
Embroidery doesn’t usually do much for me, but combine with typography and CMYK screens and it’s all geek friendly! (via Haddock)
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ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps
Handy tool for making color ranges for use on maps, via that Oakland Crimespotting heat maps post.
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ColourLovers Coup.0 :: Colour Lovers
Odd but interesting and useful site for sharing colour palettes, marred only by over-busy design and annoying Flash. (via Haddock)
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ColorMatch 5K :: the original
complicated colour scheme generator (crashed my browser once though)
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Color Blender
Eric Meyer’s nifty colour blender