Mondrianum

Many TUAW readers, I would assume, are in either employed by, or dabble in, the creative pursuits. This means from time to time you have to fire up an illustration program, or design something using a color scheme. Luckily, I spend most of my time writing, not designing. I am mildly colorblind, and have very poor color sense (if you've watched any of our videos from Macworld featuring me you know I'm not kidding) so picking the right color scheme for anything is often beyond my feeble talents. That's why I was so very excited when I first heard of kuler.

kuler is a rather cool Flash web app, from the fine folks at Adobe, that makes it simple to pick a pleasing color combination. Even better, if lets you save your combo and share it with the rest of the kuler users, who can rate the combos and find one that is just right for that Knight Rider tribute website they are working on.

But, I hear you asking, what the heck does this have to do with Macs? Well, my impatient reader, let me tell you about Mondrianum. Mondrianum is a cool plugin for your Mac that lets you access kuler combinations from within any app that has a color palette available. You can search kuler combos, see the highest rate, the most popular, or the most recent additions and you can even save favorite colors in little wells at the bottom of the window.

Mondrianum (which is a very clever name) is currently in beta and only works with Leopard.

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Source: http://www.lithoglyph.com/mondrianum

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FoundInTheFlood

Is there such a plugin for the colourlover.com guys? then i will use that one, many designers also told me that the adobe thing is just a rip-off, but if the colourlovers dont have a plugin ill have to go for adobe

January 28 2008 at 2:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Galley

I have been using Color Schemer Studio for years. They even have an online version.
http://colorschemer.com/

January 25 2008 at 5:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan

This feels more like an alpha release than a beta, it jams up the entire color panel when I use it.

I prefer the Kuler Dashboard widget a lot more, and it has the same function (more or less)

January 25 2008 at 4:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brownrecluse

Hi, this seems pretty cool. It seems to work fine in text edit and other mac apps, but I can't seem to get it to show up in Photoshop, which is really where I need it to work.

Has anyone got it to work in photoshop, if so, how?

gracias,

Brown.Recluse

January 25 2008 at 3:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Interestingly, I actually used to use the behr.com paint color picker for this same application.

January 25 2008 at 2:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kuler is nothing but a rip off of the better and inde www.ColourLovers.com check it out.

January 25 2008 at 1:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rookie

What is this "Your Mondrianum will expire on xx/xx/xxx"

It isn't mentioned anywhere in the readme or on their site

January 25 2008 at 1:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hansning

for the record, and sorry if this is already well know, adobe kuler is a ripoff of www.colourlovers.com. just thought everyone should be reminded. give the orinal community some love!
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/07/06/for-the-record-adobe-kuler-vs-colourlovers/

January 25 2008 at 1:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Johan Nilsson

Really cool and useful plugin, but still some serious bugs. But I'm sure this will be a must have in the future

January 25 2008 at 1:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bshigenaka

I was so excited I installed it right away and started playing with it. It's VERY Beta. Using the search string causes it to jump out of the input window every letter after the third as it searches, and it's managed to crash both apps I've tried it in.

Great concept but I think it's in early stages....

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