World of Warcraft, the uber-popular 'massively multiplayer online role-playing game', has been mesmerizing people since its release in 2004, maybe even longer: the Warcraft world has been around since 1994. With over 12 million users reported in October 2010, and with those users logging an amount of hours of game play that would frighten and intrigue any social scientist, we're beginning to think there is more going on than just a series of never-ending quests, maybe people are there simply to enjoy and take in the scenery of the virtual landscapes and each zone's unique color palette.

So, recommended by one of our members who "especially likes the pastels of "Skywall", as well as the teal and tan of "Thousand Needles""--and supported by many, I suspect, we're exploring the colorful world of the latest expansion, Cataclysm, for inspiration. If you're looking for more, check out where all these screenshots came from, MMO Champion or on WoW wiki.

Post your World of Warcraft inspired palettes, colors and patterns in the comments.

Coming to us via The Post Family, 'A Memory'  is a series capturing specific moments and feelings using color.

A Memory is a piece that expresses the moment of joy while I am creating. I want to capture my feeling in the moment I have it and express it in different color and shape while I am creating the piece... - Yee Wong

Brought up here in the COLOURlovers forum, the PersonalDNA site allows you to decode your personality into a color palette. Who wants to make buttons? If we were to all wear our personal color codes just think how quickly we could recognize like minded people. Or maybe some things are better left personal.

PersonalDNA is "an innovative new personality test that combines thorough scientific analysis with novel questions and response techniques. The result is a fun test that provides accurate, detailed feedback. Are you an "attentive thinker"? A "free-wheeling artist"? Find out which one of our 256 personality types matches you, and get details that go beyond those categories, plus suggestions on how to be different—no two results are alike. Then compare your results to your friends' personalities, and see how well you know each other with our psych you/psych me feature."

Find out your color DNA. Are you a____?

(hover over any color to reveal the name)

Generous Thinker

Generous Thinker

Reserved Inventor

Considerate Idealist

Have you ever seen a [w] tag in a palette's name and wonder what is was? It's wordlinks, a fantastic game and creative exercise! Take a look at the description by praxicalidocious in the latest recruitment post for the game:

There is a delightful game here on CL, so delightful, in fact, that it has it's own dedicated group, wordlinks. (You might have seen a [w] palette tag, and wondered what it meant.)

Wordlinks are palettes where each colour is a part of a 'chain'; the name of each colour begins with the last word of the previous colour. Like so, since I can let badges do all the work:

...You see? (If you're more ambitious, and are lucky with the first colour (which is always the last colour from the previous palette in the chain; please try to keep this in mind when choosing your own final colour, to allow others a good starting point), the power of the word doubling lends tremendous dramatic weight to your 'scenelets'. (In [w], irony is always delicious!)

We are all so so impressed with the pattern designs that folks are creating with Seamless!

I've been collecting new fabulous patterns (templates) each month. Have a look at some of the great new patterns created in November 2010 and add your recent pattern designs in the comments.

Put the over 1.4 million color palettes from COLOURlovers.com in your pocket with ColorSchemer Touch.  With our new iPhone/iPod Touch app you can create and share the color love from anywhere with signal.  The endless stream of palettes makes it fun and easy to explore fellow COLOURlovers' creations and interact with them by loving their work.

And with palette creation tools inspired from our ColorSchemer desktop software, you can make a beautiful palette whenever inspiration strikes.

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Color: simplest of objects; most complex of subjects.

colors. i like the almost non existing ones. just tiny bits of color - grijs

grils is a blog of beautiful things with color that is hardly there, yet still leaves a lasting impression. A fine place for inspiration. Post your latest minimal color palettes in the comments.

Pay homage to Color Master Gene Davis and join the color experimentation with the Color Barcode Multiblend Generator created by sero* (codename: cuttlefish).

I've been tinkering with the 99 palette generator for the last several months, and it's ready for a v2 release. It now supports widths, hue options, any number of palettes (1-99), and an offset parameter so we can narrow into any set of palettes we want. Think of it as a timeline, the offset is how many palettes back from present time you want to go.

Here is a gallery of some of the most beautiful pieces I've found so far. If you find a beautiful set, please post a link here. I know there are tons of beautiful multiblends and compositions out there waiting.  Cheers, sero*

With color groups dedicated to individual artist(s), styles (genres) and the overall auditory experience that is music, it's easy to see that music does inspire color. Browse the community to see what music looks like in color, and share your palettes in one of the ongoing music discussions in the forum or in the comments below.

We are all so so impressed with the pattern designs that folks are creating with Seamless!

I've been collecting new fabulous patterns (templates) each month. Have a look and add your recent pattern designs in the comments.

Original Pattern By: Gwenwhyfair

Original Pattern By: thisgirldesigns