exploring color

October 24, 2003 10:04 PM

exploring color... online utility to help room designers (and maybe even web designers) choose the right color for their project.
posted by crunchland (13 comments total)

oh, this is insanely fun.

Also, Easy RGB is a great site for finding color equivalencies between color collections (RGB, brand paint colors, pantone, color cards, etc.), plus complementary colors.
posted by taz at 10:54 PM on October 24, 2003

I was about to make a dumb snarky remark about finding the exact shade of blue of a certain carbonated beverage, but this turned out to be the coolest and most useful piece of Flash I've seen in forever. Thanks, crunchland.
posted by 4easypayments at 12:57 AM on October 25, 2003

Man, this thing rocks.

THIS is what Metafilter is all about-thankyouthankyouthankyou!
posted by konolia at 4:40 AM on October 25, 2003

This is great, thanks. On side note, if you know that you can view flash and their browser/flash detection is getting it wrong, use these URLS:

Color Name/Number: Interior, Exterior
Browse Colors: Interior, Exterior
Inspiration Library: Interior, Exterior
posted by thebabelfish at 5:44 AM on October 25, 2003

Here's another color toy to help you come up with a color pallette for your website. And if you need to come up with a bunch of blended shades, try this one.
posted by crunchland at 5:50 AM on October 25, 2003

Thanks for saving me the trouble of griping about poorly coded browser detection, thebabelfish! You'd think Phoenix/Firebird would be among the "certain Mozilla browsers..."
posted by majick at 6:10 AM on October 25, 2003

Great .... as if my honey-do list wasn't long enough already! Pretty cool none the less
posted by ElvisJesus at 7:18 AM on October 25, 2003

this is like a turbo version of the little computer i used to play with at lowes hardware as a child. great. i had plans for today, too.
posted by oog at 9:14 AM on October 25, 2003

Also, don't miss Pixy's incredible Color Scheme Generator [javascript]. It's been an incredible help on a number of projects.
posted by SteelyDuran at 9:44 AM on October 25, 2003

Thanks everybody, these are all awsome!
posted by LouReedsSon at 1:38 PM on October 25, 2003

thank you. I needed something to stall my girlfriend from charging forward with decorating plans...

this will do it.
posted by Busithoth at 4:12 PM on October 25, 2003

Wow, great links all the way around! Whoo hoo! Thanks for the post.
posted by dejah420 at 11:13 PM on October 25, 2003

[this is good]
posted by dg at 6:21 PM on October 26, 2003