Even though i’ve been a designer for years and was an artist for years before that, i’ve never been all that fond of color. I was more interested in value, i guess; i thought shades of gray were perfectly nice-looking and suitable for any application. In high school i had a purple room and drove a teal car, but i’ve always worn a lot of black and even avoided using color in certain design projects in college.
However, something about scouring the web for the perfect color palette for our wedding has made me totally smitten with color. This is somewhat odd considering that the primary colors of our wedding will be black and white and that a wedding is probably the one event where that palette is appropriate, but searching for the perfect accent color has really opened my eyes to all the subtly-different millions of colors out there and how certain combinations of them can change the way a person feels. I’ve even been buying more colorful clothing lately. It’s such a wonderful thing – who knew??
There’s a website called COLOURLovers that i’ve been using for several years as a source for color palettes, but i never created an account or started creating my own until now. I’m getting off to a slow start in terms of popularity, but i’m having a lot of fun creating color palettes from photographs. For example, the palette you’re seeing to the right is one i created from this photo:
…Which, by the way, i have forgotten the source of. I didn’t take the photo and i can’t remember where i found it, so if you know its origin please let me know!
And – designer friends – you should really consider trying this site out; it’s a lot of fun despite the fact that i have no idea why you can love a palette, follow a palette or a person, send love notes to a person or (i think?) a palette and yet can’t really go back and find the colors you loved/followed/left notes for. I wanna see what colors make you swoon. 
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 2:00 pm • color, web design
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