Note: This post originally appeared on Cathy Palmer's Blog
Review Web 2.0 Tools: kuler
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/
Kuler is a dynamic color-theme generator. It uses structured methods of color relationships and/or intuitive methods of visually choosing colors from an image or spectrum color wheel. The visual color information is easy for anyone to access, and very intuitive to use without knowing any code or specifications. The technical color information is useful cross-media data for print designers and web developers, and works well as a conversion tool between formats.
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/
Kuler is a dynamic color-theme generator. It uses structured methods of color relationships and/or intuitive methods of visually choosing colors from an image or spectrum color wheel. The visual color information is easy for anyone to access, and very intuitive to use without knowing any code or specifications. The technical color information is useful cross-media data for print designers and web developers, and works well as a conversion tool between formats.
Main sections of the kuler website include Themes, Create: From a Color and Create: From an Image.
The community features let you browse the color themes posted by others for creative inspiration or share your own color themes with a team. Tags posted by the color theme creators make them keyword searchable. Comments and star ratings are enabled, and the number of downloads is tracked so that the themes can be ranked by popularity. There is even a Community Pulse area that visually shows the popularity of all colors by how many times they have been included in a theme.
There are many benefits of this free color-palette-generating service in that it is cross-platform (Mac or PC), cross-media (print or web), and it offers both visual and technical information for design and production. Kuler functions are also built into the InDesign CS4 and Illustrator CS4 applications of the Adobe Creative Suite software. A drawback of kuler is the need for a separate Adobe I.D. registration to use online, as well as a Flikr account to upload images because the Color Extraction feature can only access images uploaded to Flikr. Color Extraction has difficulty with CMYK-mode images, and this feature does not support color management, so associated color profiles of uploaded images will be ignored.
kuler could be used in a classroom lesson for design inspiration, print or web color gamut specification, or understanding relational color theory.
Help and more information about Kuler is available at http://kuler.adobe.com/links/kuler_help.html
kuler could be used in a classroom lesson for design inspiration, print or web color gamut specification, or understanding relational color theory.
Help and more information about Kuler is available at http://kuler.adobe.com/links/kuler_help.html
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