Saturday, May 24, 2008

Color Resource List



Have a colorful weekend everyone. Here is a short list of links and resources to bring a rainbow of color info into your world.

Pantone fashion color report spring 2008

Adobe: Basic Color Theory For The Desk Top

Understanding how complimentary colors work can really make a piece of art pop right off the wall. Check out the article at Wikipedia On Complimentary Colors.

Browser Safe Palette
( See Article by Lynda Weinam on The Web-Safe Color Dilemma )

The Color Association of The United States has a cool color trivia game


http://www.colourlovers.com/

101 Color Resources For Web Designers

Wet Canvas has a great list of articles on Color Theory


For Color Inspiration ... try Flickr and search keyword Color
or
Check out their many color groups

2 comments:

Chicago Wedding Photojournalist said...

Thanks for the book recomendation!
I'm going to be doing a series on "The Interaction of Color" if you'd like to read along
http://makelightreal.com/learning/josef-albers-interaction-color/

cowbelly said...

Thank you so much for introducing us to colourlovers.com! I am now fully obsessed with the site, and even put a post on my blog today with my favorite palettes, and a shout-out to you Rebecca! (p.s. let me know if I got your last name wrong- I don't know which one you use!)

blog post: http://www.cowbellyblog.com/2008/06/02/new-obsession-colourloverscom/

my handle on colourlovers.com: punchdrunk

LOVED this week's post on colors!!!