Re: What colour coordination tool(s) do you use?

"Lois" <auto-newsgroups@wordsweave.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for more programs (preferably but not necessarily free)
> that put coordinating colours together. I don't need another colour
> chart or colour finder; there are dozens of those around. What I'm
> looking for is a program that will let me choose a colour or input a
> hex # and will then show a scheme of colours that coordinate with
> that colour.

I use "Human Eyes v1.00" with the new "Colour Perception" plugin.....Alas,
looking around the internet nowadays, it's a rarely used tool.....

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In article <36n9juF53klmcU1@individual.net>,
janetandsam@beeteeinternet.com says...
>
> "Lois" <auto-newsgroups@wordsweave.com> wrote in message
> news:ZMhNd.348$Xk6.329@fe61.usenetserver.com...
> > I'm looking for more programs (preferably but not necessarily free)
> > that put coordinating colours together. I don't need another colour
> > chart or colour finder; there are dozens of those around. What I'm
> > looking for is a program that will let me choose a colour or input a
> > hex # and will then show a scheme of colours that coordinate with
> > that colour.
>
> I use "Human Eyes v1.00" with the new "Colour Perception" plugin.....Alas,
> looking around the internet nowadays, it's a rarely used tool.....
>
>

Hmmmmmm, I've been using my own "personal" human eyes for 10 years
now... seem to work the best for me.

B

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Bahooka Bil wrote:

>> I use "Human Eyes v1.00" with the new "Colour Perception"
>> plugin.....Alas, looking around the internet nowadays, it's a rarely used
>> tool.....
>>
>>
>
> Hmmmmmm, I've been using my own "personal" human eyes for 10 years
> now... seem to work the best for me.

Well, Bahooka Bill and Fat Sam, I think you have it exactly right.
There have been theories about what constitutes the most pleasant color
scheme for hundreds of years. Every time, along comes some group of people
who find the scheme of the day boring or clashy, or who say that they don't
WANT a pleasant color scheme, thank you very much. All you can really do
is try to make the colors somehow appropriate to the content -- if there is
any content, and if that's your bag.

What empirical experiments could you possibly run to verify the 'best' color
scheme for a society with goths, Democrats, Republicans, Bozos, Bezerkers,
quilters, Abstract Expressionists, and parakeet lovers?
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"mbstevens" wrote:
All you can really do
: is try to make the colors somehow appropriate to the content

That's one thing that colour coordinator tools can't do for us, but
they can put combinations together that we might not come up with on
our own.

: What empirical experiments could you possibly run to verify the
'best' color
: scheme for a society with goths, Democrats, Republicans, Bozos,
Bezerkers,
: quilters, Abstract Expressionists, and parakeet lovers?

I wasn't looking for a tool to give me the "best" colour scheme, but
one to help get ideas. These tools often put shades of colours
together that I find pleasing and that work together better than a
combination I could've come up with without these tools.

Lois