Tools That Help You Choose Colors...for anything!
By terryswalerI love color. But in my house -- using color is a relatively recent development. So, I've been searching around for things that would help me figure out what might work, what definitely won't when choosing color.
When I bought my house the former owner had painted the kitchen and dining room the EXACT colors of Blockbuster -- electric blue and yellow. It's made me cautious! <grin>
So this might help you if you're like me and are trying not to waste tons of money on paint that is not the color you thought it would be. (Not that that's EVER happened to me!)
The color sites I like:
colr.org — allows you to play with color and color schemes — it will even take a photo you like and give you the colors within it. VERY neat — especially if you have some unusual color combinations you want to experiment with (ahem.) Seriously — take time and play with this one.
The second site is a color scheme generator — not quite as cool — but it works with the traditional color wheel — and will take a color and give you it’s analogous, opposites, triads, etc. It will also give you the RGB (if you need that) and the URL of the schemes you like. That’s cool.
Also cool, because it puts swatches together so you can see how colors interact (developed as a website color tool — but applicable to lots of other things) is Color Laboratory — click on the colors in the color wheel and it puts them together. NEAT.
And Craftsanity has this great PDF that has a ton of ideas for generating color combinations.
Also I did some relatively boring web searches on color theory — which led me to some interesting things on color, music and mood. I really like when it becomes unexpected. So, here are a few links and sites that I loved — they are unusual and will lift your mood!
This one combines spirals with color and music! Cute.
This one is fabulous. It really plays with color and all it’s associations. Worth looking at. (you can click on the link or on the picture to get there)
Ooooh. This one is neat. Musicovery.com. Play music according to your mood — or the mood you’d rather be in!
Here’s an interesting one. This guy built a music suit — and you can make him dance. I thought it was pretty cool. Fun and interactive.
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I live in Upstate NY (Rochester) and live in a 1930's bungalow that I'm restoring. ...
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You Make Me Smile
wow! thank you so much for putting this together!!
terryswaler
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This has to be one of the cooler ones I've seen
http://kuler.adobe.com/
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