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.
Some Color Palette Milestones...
#1
#1 (Community Palette)
#100
#10,000
#100,000
#1,000,000
#999,999
#1,000,001
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.
All 1,000,000 Color Palettes...
(Each pixel is a color strip in a palette) Click to see larger version.
Some Interesting Color Coincidences
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.
What Do We Do With So Many Palettes?
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.
Make Something Awesomely Colorful!
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:
Your Palettes... Your Stories: Share Why You Create
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?
Thank you all so much. I'm looking forward to the next million, 10 million... and every other colorful milestone we'll reach together.
A Chicago-style hot dog is a steamed Red Hot Chicago, Vienna Beef or David Berg hot dog topped with sliced/diced/wedged tomatoes, cucumbers, both a dill pickle spear and sweet pickle relish (a particularly bright green style of relish, referred to as "nuclear green" relish), yellow mustard directly on the sausage, pickled sport peppers, and is finished with celery salt, and served on a steamed poppy seed bun. Chicago-style never includes ketchup, though some vendors offer small packets of the condiment for those wanting to add it. Although outside Chicago this style of hot dog is universally associated with the city, equally popular within Chicago is a "Maxwell Street Polish" sausage, usually served on a plain bun with fried or grilled onions and mustard. Both variations are becoming readily available through the nationwide expansions of such Chicago area fast food eateries as Portillo's.
The most popular variety of hot dog in Maine is one made with natural casing. The casing is colored red, and are commonly referred to as red hot dogs, though are more commonly known as red snappers.
Inspiration from the launch pad of a space shuttle.
At launch, the Space Shuttle consists of a dark orange-colored external fuel tank, two white slender solid rocket boosters and orbiter. When the boosters ignite and the gray metal structure releases the shuttle, orange and white tear through the sky creating unexpected compliments against the serene blue and black.
Politics aside, the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL) has a collection of historically important and good lookin' posters in wide variety of illustrative styles. The collection which showcases work from the 1960's to the present is shared by Flickr user *linds and is also available to view at the OSPAAAL site.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a professor of Pyschology at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, and the famed creator of the Rotating snakes illusion, has been updating his site since 2002 and it is full of intriguing color illusion. He is also responsible for inspiring the artwork on Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion album.
Four Tanks
There are two pairs, each of which consists of two squares of the same color. Which are the two pairs?
Answer of "Four tanks": the pair of the leftmost square and the neighboring one, and the pair of the rightmost square and the neighboring one
Squares of four colors
Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2007 (February 15)
It appears that there were squares of four colors, though there are two colors (red and green) for squares.
"You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. At first I thought Richard was pulling our collective legs, being a trickster of high magnitude. So I loaded the image in Photoshop and examined the two spirals. In the two squares displayed below, the one on the left is colored using the same color from the blue spiral, and on the right using the green spiral."
"This is the desription of the Flickr set 3gen by |||||||||||||||||||: ▲ 3 üç üçgen triangle three trois 三 ג ๓ ٣ III ► ◄ ▼ drie Գ ३ γ´ Ⅲ trys trejetas sān колмо 叁 tri ∆.
Everything clear?" - today and tomorrow
With Awkward Family Photos being covered by the likes of Time, Esquire, O Magazine's twitter, Time Out and The Telegraph, it's safe to say that this hilarious blog which allows you to browse and submit photos of your more awkward family moments, is indeed reaching their goal of "spreading the awkwardness."
I find the photos with coordinated outfits to be especially hilarious and uncomfortable, and they make for some awkward color palettes as well.
According its info page, with this app you can take, save, store and color match photos with the 1,500 Sherwin Williams paint colors. Also with the match comes a coordinating palette and RGB numbers.
Hough’s work is an inquiry into the sense of mystery and awe that occupies the transitional space between specific conditions or states. He is interested in the flux between binaries such as image and object, form and flatness, the fleeting and the permanent, the personal and the universal. By creating figurative images solely through the use of surface-distortions and reflective color-shifting auto-paint, he explores the interplay between image, surface and viewer, and references the anonymous reproducibility of contemporary personal experience, its relationship to the boundary membrane of a screen, and the desire to perfect and objectify moments in time - to own them.
Though Holi is a month behind us now, here at COLOURlovers we never miss a chance to remind people and share the love of this Festival of Color that takes place each March to welcome in the spring throughout India and other locations with large Hindu populations.
There are a few stories out there behind the festivals origins (read about those in this nice writeup about the festival by Colette) and you can get a different tale depending on who you talk to and which region you happen to be in, but it is clear what Holi really celebrates is the bright colors that are synonymous with life, joy and positive energy within the Indian community.
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