Ever since the first palettes were shared on COLOURlovers I’ve wanted to see their awesomeness in print… And a few years ago I got in contact with the fine folks at HOW books who also wanted to help make it happen. We’re stoked and honored to be able to share 3,000 amazing color palettes from our community in a printed book with readers in real life.
Color Inspirations is on Pre-order at Amazon. Check it out!
Palette Galleries
3,000 palettes to be exact have been selected and organized by hue into a printed inspiration gallery. Each palette proudly displaying its name as well as the name of the member who created it and the HEX, RGB & CMYK values for the colors in the palette. The index of the book has each palette name, creator and a link to its page here on COLOURlovers… so new offline lovers can connect to the community online.
Inspiration & Information
Along with the 3,000 color palettes there are 10 inspirational and informational color articles.
Thanks to Dave, our long time blog writer, for help putting it all together!
A Who’s Who of Awesome Palette Makers!
We gathered the palettes for Color Inspirations 2 years ago, so unfortunately we’re missing some of our wonderful new members creations in the book… but we still managed to share 1,000+ member’s palettes. We’ve been honored to showcase your work here on COLOURlovers and give you some recognition in the physical world too!. All the members who have a palette in the book are listed below:
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A Note on Palette Sourcing
Before we had a chance to announce the book, some members found it and posted some concerns about how we sourced the palettes. Members were also surprised it had never been mentioned… Our bad. We should have done a better job keeping you all informed.
As for rights, no worries. You still own the rights to all the creations you share here on COLOURlovers, but you also extend us the right to share your work commercially, like here on this website and in promotional projects like this book.
