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- Enchirito, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28YEAH! Down with the sharing of color palettes! Every web developer should have a degree in color theory or else they are unimaginative and worthless!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18the best tools are your eyes and a good sense of design.
- VenTatsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Can these tools help me make a Web 1.0 color palette? I still haven't figured out what Web 2.0 is, so I'm not sure I can make a Web 2.0 color palette.
Though I don't think I've made a paletted image in years, true color just looks better. Oh, maybe he meant a color scheme not a color palette. - WITFITS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The title is somewhat misleading... the color tools don't have anything to do with Web 2.0. They are simply online palette generators that allow you to find complimentary/harmonic/whatever colors.
- magic6435, on 10/12/2007, -10/+21@ crass22
You forget one.
***** you! - shinelikeitdoes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9sort of ironic that fuzzyfuture is a totally crap looking site.
- Nicklogan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Is it me or does all this web 2.0 stuff remind me of the scene from 'American Psyco' where they are discussing the 'off white' color of their bussiness cards.
- r2pro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm is a one stop shop for design resources. Color schemes, fonts, logos, clip art, vector art, backgrounds, free stock photos, low cost stock photos, icons, poser downloads, etc, etc, Regularly updated. I use it frequently.
- scuzzman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Most have been on Digg previously (if not submitted then linked in comments). But this is a nice collection, it gets my digg.
- noisuf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5How can you trust a website that tries to help you find a great color palette, when their website themselves is terribly colored and designed. (talking about the links within the fuzzyfuture site, not the fuzzy future site itself, however i think he over used the ROUNDED CORNERS "technique" :)
- SecondGuesser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I wish I had the time to hate all over Digg all day. Do they post this rubbish because they think they're being funny? Or are they really that pathetic that they have to bash others free advice? One of these days I'll meet these clowns in real life. I can't wait to see the cowards in action. Internet tough. Whatever.
I liked the article. Dugg. - Razster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I use what ever color looks good at the time, I don't use trend fonts, trend colors... Designer I be! and to follow others is not the right course.
- dancenhance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Don't fall for the trend. Buy a good color combinations book or a design book instead. I use Color Index. Search Amazon for it.
I've gone through or given away 4 copies. His whole collection is great. - cbeach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Undoubtedly when the "Web 3.0" hyperbole gets going, I'll be able to come up with "10 Tools to Help you Select a Web 3.0 Palette" and it'll be dugg to the front page!
- theadvinci, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1To be honest... Photoshop - the only tool a web designer needs.
- arkmtech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Decent enough collection of color-scheming sites - WellStyled's CSG2 deserves to be somewhere on the list, though.
>> http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html - ozonew4m, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1I agree that photoshop is an excellent tool but its no substitute for color taste and knowing what looks good and what doesnt... For more info about color in all forms go check out http://www.color-chart.org Theres some really interesting stuff there.
- rockrapdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The color pallette chooser that was posted on digg was good. Anyone care to search it?
- Destinatus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't like the fuzzy future site's palette, but I really enjoy the COLOURlove site, thanks!
- Nick22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I find that it is true with alot of these sites spouting out lists of "great design resources" and whatnot. They all seem to look like ass while telling you how to make your site look good.
- Enchirito, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4All those amazing color schemes to choose from, and they went with white on dark gray and green, with orange and blue links. nice.
- Benminnn, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9Man, you seem awfully angry about web design and color choices. Perhaps you should settle down and have a nice Snickers?
- sunshinelife, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you want to make it easy on yourself a good approach is allways "less is more".
Try a plain white background.
Try just plain simple text fonts.
Experiment with one or perhaps two centrally located images to "build the colour palette".
Less is more. - englishvoice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The first tool to help u "Select a Web 2.0 Color Palette" is your brains, dude. This men ( http://fine-arts-photo.blogspot.com ) don't all this stuff, but result is more impressive than any color palette that you can find.
- sivamkrish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As sabarsky has pointed out " the best tools are your eyes and a good sense of design " . The color wheel is out out date. There is much better understanding of how color is perceived. The color wheel is taught by many schools, but rarely used. It gives the same combination of concentrated and saturated unnatural colors that people are fed up with. The best way to select color is by "trusting your eye" and developing your design sense.
- evilish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why the hell are you muppets getting upset over some a site that lists colour palette generators.
Seriously, if you don't have any use for colour palette generators and think your king ***** of colours - then don't comment and don't even look at the any website mentioning colour palette generators.
Frign, muppets..
For those that find colour palette generators helpful.
Check out http://kuler.adobe.com/ .
The Photoshop swatches option is handy. - englishvoice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Don't keep any rules ))
- vann, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Snooty snoot, snoot wankity wankwankwank, snooty snoot.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So how exactly are colors web2.0 (disregarding the clear fact that web2.0 as a whole is just a marketing scam to lure venture capitalists out of some $)
- McTendo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I'm with you on that. I'll just wait until Web 7.04 BETA comes out.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -20/+15Inaccurate headline. It should say this:
"10 ways to turn your site into a pathetic cliché, you unimaginative *****" - mjeppsen, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Web 2.0 "hipster" complaints aside, the article fails to mention how useful these tools are to design and media creation in general. For instance, they are an excellent starting place to build a palette for any motion graphics or 3d artist. Of these tools, I have found Adobe Kuler to be extremely useful due to it's simple integration of swatches into Adobe's tools. It works with other applications as well, as explained in a recent video tutorial by freshdv.com editor Kendal Miller: http://www.freshdv.com/2007/03/freshdv-tutorial-adobe-kuler.html
Matt Jeppsen
http://www.freshdv.com - krebcycle, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3@crass: I couldn't agree with you more.
Web 2.0 is the dumbest most overused buzzword there is. - VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -9/+1I honestly have never had a problem with color combinations. To me it is the easiest part of designing. Not really that hard...
FYI Blue and Green together is awesome - diggfinity, on 10/12/2007, -23/+12Please stop spamming with your fuzzyfuture site. It's not fuzzy. It's not futuristic. It's annoying.
- Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -46/+18***** Web 2.0
***** Trendy Colors
***** Trendy Logos or whatever stupid *****.
Its the ***** internet, nothing has changed cept the unflux of hipsters who use buzzwords to sound intellectual.
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