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Colour palettes posted 15th August 2003

As regular readers will know, I’m not very good with colour. Well to my eyes I’m good with colour, but I still need folks to tell me what colours normal-sighted people think go together. And that’s where colour palettes come in: the Sherwin-Williams company has published some beautiful historically accurate colour schemes. [Via What Do I Know some time ago]

Colour tools: There are a number of really handy online colour tools coming to my notice. They all help the untrained or unreliable eye to come up with colour schemes and palettes based on complimentary and harmonious colours. I list five of them.
Thoughtful dialogue: I love the new version of TopStyle (Pro 3). Its colour picker is a piece of genius, packed with so many features (all of them useful in their own way), particularly to colour ‘blind’ users such as yours truly.
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More Gardening: Andy Budd has created a lovely design for the Zen Garden. I’m giving a SkillSwap talk this Monday on Design Process – Evolution of the Wireframe. Dave Shea has reinvigorated discussion on designing with colour deficient folks in mind and points us to Pixy’s…
Colour blind questionnaire: Call to colour blind readers to help out with PhD research and a point towards my contribution to 24 ways.