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I was going to wait and have some links from this site in the Friday Smackdowns, but there’s just so much good stuff I thought it deserved a post of it’s own.

If design matters to you at all or you’re interested in color, art or just making things look good you need to check out this site.

What you’ll find

Discusion about Colors, Design, Fashion and Print
Color palettes for any style and feel
Blog of interesting articles and trends
much more…

Interesting articles
Painting with Light
Magnets Change Liquid’s Color
Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List

Things you can use this site for?

Impress the wife with your eye for color on the next room redecoration.
Stump the designers with your insane knowledge of smooth delicate transitions and sharp accents.
Rattle off hex colors to those annoying programmers that know everything about web design.
Paint your cubicle or office each month with a different palette.

Quick, go and check it out before everyone comes back from lunch.

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Josh 1 year ago 1 point
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Hi Anna, thanks! That adobe site is really cool. Smooth interface and I like that you can download the color swatches. Another site that I use is http://colorblender.com. Not as slick of an interface, but you can download the colors as Photoshop color tables or Illustrator colors.

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http://solidsmack.com

al dean 1 year ago 1 point
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Funny, colour never gets a look in the CAD world - selection of colours is critical and even the rendering tools aren't geared up for colour selection and evaluation.. Except a few (maybe Hypershot and Showcase)..

Oh - if like me you're into getting your render work as photo-real as possible or like knowing the make up of colours you see (and what to steal) - these things are wicked:

http://www.pantone.com/pages/products/product.a...

Its for the print industry, but for a designer, its fantastic colour stealing/checking tool.. you put it on the surface, hit the button, it gives you a read out on the LCD of the pantone reference, but also the RGB and CMYK values. Bit costly, but you might find a used first gen one (which I have) on ebay or something.. Carry it with me in my big old canvas bag of tricks.

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http://www.mcadonline.com

Josh 1 year ago 1 point
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AL, that thing is wild! I haven't seen that before and I definitely could have used it. One more gadget to add to my list. thanks!

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http://solidsmack.com

Myspace Colour Codes 4 months ago 1 point
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I wasnt entirely sure about this but gave it a shot and was pleasantly surprised ...... all hail the Blogosphere !

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http://www.layoutgraphics.net

color_chart 2 weeks ago 1 point
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I know this is a shameless plug and i do apologise but if your interested in color you should also check out http://www.color-chart.org nice blog by the way :)

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