Color Schemer: colour picking made nice and easy
29th April 2008
When starting a project, colour is usually forefront in my mind when it comes to design. I find colour can influence the choice of type and imagery I use, so I like to get this down quickly. Obviously if the project has a colour scheme in place, I still need to find complimentary colours to fall back on.
On starting many web projects, I have found myself dipping into online colour sites like Adobe Kuler for getting colour inspiration. While good and useful, I was finding these sites slow and just a bit random. I decided a small desktop app would be better and hopefully would make my life easier.
What I needed was:
1. A colour picker
2. Colour suggestions feature
3. Swatch colour group builder
4. Export option for Photoshop and Illustrator
So I looked at the many apps out there and downloaded the demos. Many of them were lacking features I needed and the few advanced ones had terrible interfaces.
Then I came across ColorSchemer’s nice website. I downloaded the demo of ColorSchemer Studio OSX and it immediately ticked all the boxes.
Lightweight, with an attractive interface, I find it easy and efficient to use. I have it open at login and have it to hand all day.
Another nice little feature, is the ability to drag in a photo and generate a colour palette based on it.
Now I know that small little apps do not change life drastically like, making you a design superstar over night, yet this really has made my rise less frustrating.
It is available in MAC and PC flavours and I really recommend it. I have heard that there are plans for a CMYK feature in the future, so this will make it an even more essential small app.
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