There are lots of clever one-liners for generating random colors: ‘#’+Math.floor(Math.random()*16777215).toString(16); Unfortunately, this code naturally produces lots of greys and browns and murky greens. randomColor generates attractive colors by default. More specifically, randomColor produces bright colors with a reasonably high saturation. This makes randomColor particularly useful for data visualizations and generative art. The result pictured […]
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Adaptive Backgrounds
A jQuery plugin for extracting dominant colors from images and applying it to its parent Just set a data-* attribute on an img, and call the plugin: <img src="/image.jpg" data-adaptive-background="1"> jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $.adaptiveBackground.run() }); Adaptive Backgrounds →
Colorpeek
Colorpeek is a tiny web app for quickly seeing and sharing CSS colors. The additional Chrome extension can parse colors from three different sources: selections, images, and websites Colorpeek →Colorpeek for Chrome →
OS X Hex Color Picker
Edit and view hexadecimal color codes in the standard Mac OS X color panel Exactly what I needed! Hex Color Picker →
Paper’s Color Mixer
Paper by 53 (recommended app) now sports an innovative color mixer / color picker. Turns out it was quite a mathematical struggle to implement it too. We learned in elementary school that yellow and blue when mixed turn green. However when you plug in the values to this equation, you get a different result: Gray! […]
The two colors of Hollywood
Ever since I read this article (it’s been a year now), I can’t stop but noticing this trend in many, many Hollywood films. It looks like Hollywood only knows two colors. Don’t click through if you don’t want all your blockbusters spoiled from now on, because once you know it you’ll undoubtably notice it way […]
Mac OS X Developer Color Picker
A custom color picker designed specifically for developers. Makes getting colors out of Photoshop/Acorn mock-ups quick and easy. Currently supports NSColor, UIColor, CGColorRef, CSS and HTML styles. By the lovely people at Panic. Developer Color Picker →