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Kuler without Flash

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I recommend Colorbrewer (Flash site, sorry) for choosing colours for graphs and charts safe for colour-blind people and general discernibility: http://colorbrewer2.org.

(It's the default go-to colour scheme for d3.js devs.)

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EDIT; Use this link, if you don't have Flash: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5577023.

Colorbrewer is so great. If you haven't clicked through: it generates sequential, diverging (contrasty) and quantitative color schemes, of the sort you'd use in map coloring. It's one of those Tufte-y sorts of design resources, like _Cartographic Relief Presentations_, and it's extremely simple to use when building stuff.

Here is a hackish way to show d3-creator Mike Bostock's samples that use Colorbrewer: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abl.ocks.o....

These don't require Flash - "obviously", I'm tempted to say.

There is a javascript version hidden at http://colorbrewer2.org/js/

Umm yeah, this would be kewl if it worked, but it doesn't work in FF for me and it does in Chrome.

EDIT: {"arguments":{"0":"ReferenceError: mboxDefine is not defined","1":"https://kuler.adobe.com/build01/resource/js/external/jquery/...},"page":"https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/","browser":"Mozi... (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0","build":"build8"} https://kuler.adobe.com/build8/resource/js/util.js Line 1

Works ok here on FF25 (nightly).

FF22 works fine here (OS X).

Edit: Also see below re: ghostery (or other blockers).

Here's a similar tool-- PaletteComp! http://palettecomp.com/

If you have 5 color hexes and you actually want to see what it would look like in a mock webpage, you can use our tool! PaletteComp also is able to import colourlover palette urls.

Disclaimer: I built this and it's hosted on a free-tier heroku instance... so it might be a little slow.

Can someone explain what these are used for?

Are these the colors, in a particular scheme, that go well together, so can be used together in an app (web/mobile/etc.?)

Is there any implied order in these, such as which color should go where, or that is an exercise left to the designer?

Also, just curious if these can/are used when painting house/building?

You can use this for any project that requires color. This helps you pick colors that work well together for a specific purpose. For example, analogous / monochromatic colors work well together to set a mood, such as the overall theme of a website, or painting. Or you can use them to find colors for your house. Then you can find complementary colors that are good for accents. If you're building a website, use them for headers or captions. If you're painting a house, use them for colorful lamps or frames. Color theory is complex, and this app makes it easy to use without knowing all the intricacies.

The color wheel is a standard way to explore colors that go well together. Before digital design, I think it was more commonly used in print than buildings, but I suppose it's possible. You could also try http://ColourLovers.com for specific patterns.

Another option I've been using a lot lately: http://colourco.de/

I haven't been able to get this working in Chrome at work because some js scripts fail to download. Firefox is okay though.

Are you running Ghostery? I noticed that at least one of the scripts that ghostery blocks is needed for this to work.

A small number of web pages are broken by ghostery, because their javascript calls functions in a blocked script.

You're right. It was Adobe Analytics(omniture) being blocked which preventing the site from functioning. I'll keep Ghostery in mind whenever I see odd things happening. Thanks for pointing that out.

Yeah, but I can't find a way to pull colors from an image anymore, which makes this useless to me. I've switched entirely to ColourLovers http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add which still has the palette-from-image feature.

Kuler is widely used by designer for choosing color combination and share their own palette. It is a great webapps. It is previously developed in Flash. Now there is no Flash.

I use kuler extensively. And I think the functionality is still the same, even if they port it into different platform (pure html js css, no flash)

Did I miss the bit where we're happy about the GUYS WHO MAKE FLASH replacing their own Flash-based site with an HTML5 implementation?

Are we not impressed by that at all?

The new Kuler iOS app is pretty snazzy too. I don't do anything with design in any of my projects, but it's fun to point the camera at things and watch the app pick out colors.

this is awesome, though i'd prefer not to scroll and also have the sizes for stuff like the wheel reduced quite a bit. seems like it's optimized for tablets or something.

Awesome, this is one of the last flash websites that I still use and the flash implementation is so annoying because it doesn't respect the browsers state. Thanks Adobe!

Without flash and with dumb blocking of modern browsers.

They do user agent string filtering and deny access if does not match a whitelist.

that's just silly.

What is the reason users don't update their browser?

No, I'm pretty sure my browser has all the capabilities, but instead of checking for them, they look for 2 or 3 very specific browsers/versions and deny access to the rest.

Yes this has been a long time coming

This is good news. But oddly enough, I can't copy color values in Firefox :/

I was able to in FF. The highlight color is black (very poor contrast choice), so maybe it looked like the text wasn't copied? Try Ctrl+A with Ctrl+C. That usually works.

Is their new API out yet? I seriously hope they stopped using RSS.

what?

The old API used RSS as its data format. Yes, really.

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