Remember everything you had to learn about color theory so far? Now you can finally sit back and relax, stop thinking about which shades work well together and which don’t, because one app knows it all and works for you!
Paletton started off as Color Schemes in 2002, and it has been evolving through Color Scheme Designer, only to finally become what it is today – one app for optimizing your designer capacity by resolving all your doubts on adequate palettes. It was originally developed by Petr Staníček (“Pixy”), a Czech UI/UX designer, with the intention to be used by other designers. Petr is a designer, analyst and consultant, whose useful books on design can be found online, on his webpage.
The application allows you to mix and combine the shades for a perfectly packed palette from the spectrum. You can create palettes using one color (monochromatic), three colors (adjacent or triad), four colors (tetrad), or free style combination using as many colors as you desire. You can extract your palette by reading it’s RGB from the website, and insert it straight into your design.
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Even though we are super amazed by this cool software, this is far from everything that Paletton has to offer. Along with this color loving website, they have developed a widget called Colorizer – a simple peace of code you add to your website for every user to see and adapt the website palette as they find it most interesting. In the sea of tools developed every day in design world, Paletton Live Colorizer in its current beta version is a new, refreshing appearance, especially for web design. It offers a unique, interactive user experience, keeping your audience engaged and enjoying.
But, that’s not all! Maybe you’ve heard of Colorpedia – a Wikipedia spin-off dedicated to all you can learn about colors, color blindness, color theory, complementary color scheme, color space and many many more. It is a developing trend, getting richer with information every day, for all of us who love exploring what we love in the color universe, learning new fun facts and useful skills.
Palette engine also allows you features such as presets and randomized palettes, and at this stage they also scheduled a mobile app for their users. Learning about new versions of Colorizer and Colorpedia developed by Paletton, we certainly could not keep this treasure discovery to ourselves! We can now say, without a doubt, that Paletton is something every designer will implement in its set of tools, and we are looking forward to many more features this talented team will develop! We wish you a lot of fun while playing with these fancy apps.
About the author:
Nina Petrov is an activist, poet, performer and mathematician. She communicates with the world mostly through words, movement and equations, but sometimes also by speaking very loudly. The only truth she could say about herself is that she keeps changing every day, never stops learning and interacting with her surroundings.
