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COLOURlovers API Documentation and Showcase

By COLOURlover // April 2, 2008

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With the release of the COLOURlovers API, you can now access 1.4 million named colors and more than 500,000 color palettes for your creative projects and applications. Creating a theme editor and want to give your users some color theme options? Creating a visual project that ties keywords to colors? Who knows what amazingly creative stuff people will come up with.

Below are two showcase examples of the COLOURlovers API in action as well as the full API documentation. Happy API COLOURloving!

COLOURlovers API Usage Showcase

Desktop Color Search - AIR App

Desktop Color Search is an Adobe AIR app that runs on your desktop and allows you to search the entire COLOURlovers database for colors, palettes and patterns. You'll need to download the Adobe AIR runtime in order to run Desktop Color Search, you can use the link below to install AIR. (It works in both Windows and on Mac OS X)
Special thanks to Levi McCallum at FutonMedia for coding the AIR app.

Download Desktop Color Finder | Download Adobe AIR

DEKAF LOVERS

A simple interface to COLOURlover's deep, deep palette library, it creates randomized compositions using rectangular geometry drawn by the Degrafa drawing library.
Have some fun of your own color fun with Dekaf Lovers.

COLOURlovers API Documentation

Click here to go to the COLOURlovers API Documentation

Team

Written by COLOURlover

www.COLOURlovers.comMy name is Darius A Monsef IV & my friends call me Bub(s)(ba).
Chief Lover at COLOURlovers.com / Cofounder of Hands.org
Founder, Philanthropist, Designer, Builder & Writer.
P.S. I love you.

26 Comments

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yaoisoup

Posted Apr 2, 2008

OMG Excellent! I know nothing about api and all that, but AIR app - I'll be taking that! :DDDD Thank you very much!

manekineko

Posted Apr 2, 2008

Awesome I'd love to put something together if I can find the time...nice job CL

inday

Posted Apr 2, 2008

This comes in handy! The Desktop Color Search is indispensable tool for designers.

ZicoCarioca

Posted Apr 2, 2008

Pretty cool!

geeksmakemehot

Posted Apr 2, 2008

OMG, I'm in love all over again.

oxox to my favorite colour geek :)

torryster

Posted Apr 2, 2008

WONDERFUL~

I‘m sure it will be widely accepted as a professional color tool~

jowra

Posted Apr 2, 2008

Great! I will add some random palettes to my new site.

Thanks a lot! :-)

J-man

Posted Apr 3, 2008

Looks like fun, I'm going to have to play around with it.. I wonder what I could do with the image functions in php (heh, probably not much..).

consonant

Posted Apr 3, 2008

AIR App. for COLOURlovers is really rocking! Thanks for coding!

eskimoblood

Posted Apr 5, 2008

Thats cool. We will implement it in the upcoming colorLib for processing.

visualrinse

Posted Apr 5, 2008

you all should definitely try building some stuff with this API... it's a snap!

gsmonk

Posted Apr 6, 2008

Don't know exactly where to post this, but for all you PHP people on the site, I have written a PHP wrapper to the API.

phpColourLover. jsColourLover is also in the works!

J-man

Posted Apr 7, 2008

Oh, that looks really good, probably better than what I'm using right now.. ^_^
So anyway, I came up with a little something in php. It takes palettes and turns them into gradients. You can search for palettes by keyword and lover, as well as get the top and new palettes. You can also choose the width of the gradient and the amount of palettes to get. It was pretty hard to get started, mainly because I never have had to grab data from an xml file (This is the first API I've really used..), and because some palettes have only 2, 3, or 4 colors instead of 5.. :P So yeah, link is here, and use all my bandwidth! Actually don't worry about it, I think I have plenty.. :P

J-man

Posted Apr 7, 2008

Uh, that was supposed to be don't use all my bandwidth. No edit button.. :(

terriann

Posted Apr 10, 2008

Great as if I didn't spend all my free time coming up with new ideas of projects I will never have time to finish. Thanks for adding yet another.

I'm quite excited though that you've created an API. This is one I'll definitely get to playing with soon!

ryan.detzel

Posted Apr 23, 2008

Hey, I'm experimenting with the API and I've added a feature to my site so people can see any colour lover palettes for a color if they exist. I might add some more features later but I think this will help me out a lot when I'm looking for new color palettes from web designs I like.

Example:
http://www.inspirationfolder.com/site/2167/colourlovers.com.html

tr67

Posted May 4, 2008

*bounce*

alecks

Posted Jun 30, 2008

I implemented the API inside of Processing (of processing.org). Wrote a sketch that fills the screen with growing circles of different colors based on keyword.

In this video, the keywords used were "light spring": http://www.vimeo.com/1260802

and here is "love" with a slightly different algorithm: http://www.vimeo.com/1260839

Really glad you guys released this!

Alex

pteglia

Posted Jul 15, 2008

I wonder if there is any way you could post a link to the actual download, and not to the automatic installer that Adobe uses? I am on Linux, and the beta version of Air works for most things, but Adobe's site won't let me get past the browser checker.

Thanks!

Pat

beardbar

Posted Jul 18, 2008

it be really great if the badges could be put into the palettes api :)

florianplag

Posted Sep 21, 2008

Hi,

I wrote a "COLOURlovers screensaver". Currently, it's only for Mac. But a Windows version shouldn't be a problem, because it is written in Flash.

You can find it here:
http://www.video-flash.de/index/colourlover-screensaver-for-mac/

I also put the Flash classes online on which the screensaver is based:
http://www.video-flash.de/index/colourlovers-api-for-flash/

Florian

FredSmilek

Posted Mar 4, 2009

This will be very useful. Thanks!!

owlspook

Posted May 21, 2009

Just wanted to let fellow Linux users know that Adobe AIR works great in Linux MINT (ubuntu distro family) ... thank you Adobe (big smile) ... I d/l'd the Desktop Color Search - AIR App and it's up and runs perfect! ... looks as if it's going to be very useful in my work/art ... have to run off to work in a few minutes but I'm eager to get home and play with it more! .. thanks to all involved! (big smile)

COLOURlovers API Usage Showcase

Desktop Color Search - AIR App

DEKAF LOVERS

COLOURlovers API Documentation

Written by COLOURlover

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