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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mario said 12:42PM on 1-25-2008
Great! Finally someone mentions colorblind people. I am also mildly colorblind and can't wait to try this application.
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Leo M. said 5:21AM on 1-26-2008
Nice to meet other colorblind peeps :)
Hey!
Dan said 12:59PM on 1-25-2008
I haven't upgraded my work machine to Leopard yet, so for something more integrated than a flash app that works in Tiger Kuler has a widget (you can download from the kuler page).
But this looks very handy, will give a try at home.
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bshigenaka said 1:01PM on 1-25-2008
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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Johan Nilsson said 2:03PM on 1-25-2008
Really cool and useful plugin, but still some serious bugs. But I'm sure this will be a must have in the future
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hansning said 1:40PM on 1-25-2008
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/
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Rookie said 1:50PM on 1-25-2008
What is this "Your Mondrianum will expire on xx/xx/xxx"
It isn't mentioned anywhere in the readme or on their site
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CL said 1:57PM on 1-25-2008
kuler is nothing but a rip off of the better and inde www.ColourLovers.com check it out.
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mb said 2:40PM on 1-25-2008
Interestingly, I actually used to use the behr.com paint color picker for this same application.
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brownrecluse said 3:38PM on 1-25-2008
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
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Jonathan said 4:52PM on 1-25-2008
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)
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Galley said 5:58PM on 1-25-2008
I have been using Color Schemer Studio for years. They even have an online version.
http://colorschemer.com/
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FoundInTheFlood said 2:31AM on 1-28-2008
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
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