1 Million Color Palettes... Thanks for Sharing the Love!
Posted By COLOURlover On 27 October, 2009 In Fun, Inspiration, MEMBERlove, News | 20 Comments
Wow! What an honor. It's so amazing how many of you have taken the time to share your color ideas & inspiration with us. COLOURlovers continues to make me very proud to be part of such a great community. Our 1,000,000th palette is a great milestone and we're excited and inspired to continue sharing the color love with you all. You're all so awesome.
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But our 1,000,000 wouldn't have been possible without our 999,999th... and every palette that has been lovingly shared on this site. Thank you all so much.
(Each pixel is a color strip in a palette) Click to see larger version.

One of my favorite things to watch is the interesting coincidences that pop up when you have people from all over the world naming colors and putting them in palettes. Some fun stuff in there... go have a look and laugh.
Ok, so that's a lot of color... We're working hard on the code for Version 4 of COLOURlovers that will make it easier to find the color inspiration you're looking for, to share your color ideas with others and to make even more palettes.
We have an API... Who knows what awesome stuff you might build with access to 1 million palettes. Some things that have already been built:
Codename Cuttlefish by serostar
DekafLovers by VisualRinse
Desktop Color Finder by Levi McCallum
Circle Growth 1 from Alex Stanciu on Vimeo
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In the comments below, share a bit of your story with us. I'd love to hear your answers to these questions. (They might help us explain to new lovers just why this place is so great.)
Why do you create palettes?
What do you like about it?
If you use palettes from COLOURlovers, what for?
What makes COLOURlovers such a great creative community?
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Thank you all so much. I'm looking forward to the next million, 10 million... and every other colorful milestone we'll reach together.
+Darius (COLOURlover)
URL to article: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/10/27/1-million-color-palettes-thanks-for-sharing-the-love