Henrik Falck's blog » paintmyblog http://henrikfalck.com/blog reinventing web 3.0 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:33:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 What’s In A Color? http://henrikfalck.com/blog/2007/09/whats-in-color.html http://henrikfalck.com/blog/2007/09/whats-in-color.html#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:00:00 +0000 Henrik Falck http://henrikfalck.com/blog2/2007/09/whats-in-a-color.html Cats and kittens, I am finally – after many months of brain draining hard work – ready to present to you my official color palette! So what? you may say. Since I’m also Japan’s leading web 3.0 guru, that means these colors will also redefine what web 3.0 means.

I’m a big fan of colors. I love them! And even more – palettes! Palettes are collections of colors that fit well together. I also like painting with water colors. This palette I’ve developed – originally for paintmyblog.com – is, I would like to claim, the best palette ever. I’ve given much thought, googling, wikipeding, and time to choosing every single one of these colors. And I’ve gone through many iterations.

Although it is not out of the question that I might tweak a shade or hue here or there, I am prepared to announce this the final 1.0 release of my palette. Without further ado, I give you [pause for drama]… the colors.

In order, from right to left, upper to lower (yeah maybe my way of ordering is a bit strange, but that’s how it is):

DA70D6 orchid
F400A1 Hollywood cerise
F34723 pomegranate
FF2400 scarlet
FF7E00 amber
800020 Burgundy
FDE910 lemon
BFFF00 lime
00FF7F spring green
808000 olive
228b22 forest green
008080 teal
1C39BB Persian blue
007FFF azure
7DF9FF electric blue
F5F5DC beige
FBCEB1 apricot
CDB891 ecru
EEDC82 flax
734A12 raw umber
C0C0C0 silver
464646 charcoal

These are the only colors I will use in my productions from now on. In fact, since I’ve been developing this palette for some time now, some of my recent productions, such as paintmyblog.com (ironically that palette is a beta version, not this exact one), and Minesweeper use these colors. Also I think this blog uses only colors from this palette… hmm… anyway, I haven’t adapted the henrikfalck.com front page yet; it’s completely incompatible still.

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How do I know this works? Because it’s based on a much cleaned up version of the code used on paintmyblog.com – which has proven itself already. I look forward to writing some cool apps using this library, and I hope other people will use it as well. Expect the first release next week.

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