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Friday Favorite: ColorBurn
This is a gem for anyone who does design, both for the web and print.ColorBurn is a Dashboard widget from Firewheel Design that generates a new color palette each day for designers to try out. The suggested colors also have the hexadecimal values for web design. There is an option to change the widget background from black to white to see how the colors look against each. With quirky names for the palettes and the ability to browse back through a 7-day history, it's a very useful little tool.
One of the biggest struggles a designer can have is trying to develop a color palette to use in a design. ColorBurn is that quick flash of inspiration that can get the creative sparks going.
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Dale said 8:22AM on 12-19-2008
I suggest Kuler from Adobe. I have been using it for about a year now and it is perfect for this sort of thing. It offers up 20 palettes at at time, and it's also free.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/search/adobekulerdashboardwidget.html
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Smyge said 10:53AM on 12-19-2008
Another alternative:
http://www.colorschemer.com/galleria_info.php
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AppBeacon said 1:09PM on 12-19-2008
It's funny this is up now as ColorBurn has been available for somewhere around 3 years now. Oh well, "oldie" but goody.
Firewheel Design also produces BlinkSale and IconBuffett. There are some pretty talented people over there.
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Michael Rose said 3:11PM on 12-19-2008
Friday Favorites aren't necessarily new apps or tools, just ones we love.