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Searching Colors by Hex or RGB value

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coproduct

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious but I cannot find any way to search for colors using the hex or rgb value, something fundamental to every other color site. For example, when I try to create a new color that's already in the system, a "This Color is already in the CL System!" message is shown. Okay, so where is it? What is it's name? How do I find it? As far as I can tell, the only way to find a color is by searching for completely arbitrary, user provided, names or tags.

diva42

it needs to be as this link is except add your own hex number http://www.colourlovers.com/color/Ec145A/ rather then typing it in the search I found that using a link from the adress bar of any color and add your own hex number to the end removing the previous hex first

coproduct

That's a bit cumbersome and I'm sure it wasn't intentional. Url's are hardly ever static and really can't be depended upon. I still think it's in the best interest of the site to include hex/rgb values in the search.

Boodlums

What I would really like is to input a *set* of color values, and have the system find all palettes containing colors *close* to them, say +/-5% or whatever. I cannot browse a million palettes! My time is, y'know, valuable.
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mollybermea

Hi I'm a bit slow in getting to your guys here on this topic. It IS a bit of a funky way to search hex. Searching in general on COLOURlovers isn't the best, but I do know it is a big cumbersome job to get the changes and updates implemented - and we have a small team.

Let me look in to it more and get back to you. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the community. :)

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spudart

I'm a first-day user and I came to this post trying to find a way to search for hex values on the site. As a designer, I have interest in being able to pop in a specific hex value and do a search on that specific color. For now I will use the URL trick. But I look forward to mollybermea and her team's work in the future.

carbonandmilk

I totally agree with this thread - a search feature for hex and/or RGB values would be greatly appreciated. It's cool that we can already search for existing colours by hex in the palette search (assuming a palette actually contains the colour!), but it would be great to see that type of feature in the colour search too. :)
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