Color Inspiration: Go Green with Envy

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Green is most often associated with nature, money, and success. Because of this, it’s most often seen on either environmental or financial institution websites. Though it mixes well with a variety of other colors, green is most often paired with neutrals. We’ve compiled twenty five perfect examples of this in today’s inspiration round-up.

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50 Best Color Sites for Designers

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•    COLOURLovers: 300,000-plus designers and color-minded folks share color palettes on this site constantly, so there’s always fresh inspiration at the ready. Bookmark the site or download their free Adobe AIR application, COLOURLovers Desktop Color Finder. And while you’re it at it, COLOURLovers Blog reports on color trends and quirky color finds, with related palettes for each post.

•    ColorCombos: Not only humming with color palettes generated by its reader, you’ll also dig the Combo Tester, a free online tool enabling web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen.

•    Genopal: Save, download or share color palettes, including widgets to tweak them into a more harmonious balance relative to each other. read more

Colorful Gardens

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我是个色彩的门外汉，没有这方面的专业知识，在网页的色彩搭配上，只是凭感觉，很多时候会惊艳于某些网站的色彩设计。而这篇主旨在园艺色彩的文章，却是给了我们很好的提示：我们其实可以从大自然或是身边的任何地方提取出色彩元素，应用于我们的设计中。园艺师们服装师们是先有色彩设计、再有我们看到的各色花草植物各色面料服饰，那我们就把他们的工作来个还原，用最简单的方式找到某种配色方案，也不失为一个不错的方法。

Original article from colourlovers.com.

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Color Resources

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Original article from mogdesign.eu.

关于色彩的资源整合，包括色彩库、色彩生成器、还有色彩理论的一些文章。
我喜欢那个I LIKE YOUR COLORS色彩生成器，把你喜欢的网站设计的url地址输入进去，它可以自动生成网站的色彩代码，简单直接！

Color scheme libraries

• Colour Lovers -a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews – there also is a Colour Lovers Adobe AIR application
  
• ColorCombos – The heart of the site is the Combo Tester, which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen.
• Genopal – For creating harmonious color schemes online, there also is a desktop application
• Adobe Kuler – there also is a Kuler Adobe Air application read more

Image to Colors Palette Generator

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Upload an image to generate a color palette based on the image’s primary colors. Useful for quickly grabbing a particular color within an image for inspiration.Photoshop swatches and CSS styles also generated.

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