Filed under: Design, Utilities
ColorExplorer is one of the most massive and exhaustive online color tools that I've ever seen. In fact, it's not really a tool, but more of a toolkit - it's a bunch of separate utilities that allow you to select a palette of colors and then refine it and test how usable it would be in real life.
It's basically a bunch of tabs. You have a "My Palettes" tab, which lets you save/load and export palettes. It also lets you apply filters to the current palette and tweak all the colors in certain ways (make them warmer, for example).
That's just one tab, and that isn't even all of the functions it offers. You can import colors from saved images or from CSS/HTML pages, for example. The site takes quite a bit of time to navigate through. I cannot hope to list everything it does, but here are some highlights:
The Color Picker tab provides you with a color picker and preset variations on the color you've chosen. Once you find a hue you like, you can add it to the current template. This template then "carries through" to the other tabs.
The Color Libraries tab lets you add precise hues to your template from a number of industry-standard libraries, such as TOYO and PANTONE. You can also choose from W3C Named Colors, Web safe colors, and others. You can sort the swatches by hue, lightness, saturation, and name. And, of course, add any swatch you like to your palette.
The Color Matching tab lets you adjust RGB or HSB (hue, saturation, brightness) components for a specific swatch on your template. You can then append the result as a new swatch, or you can replace the existing one.
There's also an Analysis and Conversion tab that provides some really neat metrics on your palette, such as contrast analysis. And at the end of all this, you can export your palette to ASE, ACO, TXT or even PNG. It's very, very impressive stuff.ColorExplorer is a full-fledged online color laboratory originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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