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pixy’s color scheme chooser

For the longest time I used the href="http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/">Visibone Webmaster’s
Color Lab for the rare times when I had to come up with a color
scheme for something webby. (I still do, really; it’s pretty neat.)


Reading Kottke’s remaindered links list the other day,
though, I came across href="http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html">Pixy’s color scheme
chooser, which instead of only comparing colors together lets you
choose a starting point (HSV) and then suggests colors to use
in a monochromatic, contrasting or analogic scheme, and then lets you
view how those colors will look if limited to web-safe colors (is
there even such a thing anymore?), and with a bunch of different kinds of
colorblindness. Way cool.

Comments 8

  1. anonymous wrote: Posted 01 Jan 2001 at 12:00 am
  2. zeppo wrote:

    well dont I feel like a loser – I have been using this since the beginning of time.

    Thanks for the new links.

    Posted 24 Oct 2003 at 5:14 am
  3. zhixel wrote:

    THANK YOU.

    I had this bookmarked and then firebird ate my 300k worth of bookmarks a couple weeks ago and I was going nuts trying to find it again. It’s a godsend.

    Posted 24 Oct 2003 at 5:14 am
  4. funos wrote:

    I find it interesting that a blue-grey palette
    looks pretty much the same to any kind of know
    human vision.

    Posted 24 Oct 2003 at 5:32 am
  5. aajwind wrote:

    awesome.

    Posted 24 Oct 2003 at 6:19 am
  6. spratt wrote:

    Augh! I totally needed this thing in my life! No more spending hours picking out colors!

    Posted 24 Oct 2003 at 7:07 am
  7. gally99 wrote:

    That’s a faboulous colour tool!
    Best that I’ve seen yet!

    Posted 24 Oct 2003 at 10:05 am
  8. burr86 wrote:

    *clickclickclick* ooh, look at all the pretty colors!

    Posted 24 Oct 2003 at 5:31 pm