The Colors of Dribbble

A bit off topic, but I hope this isn't true: <i>Additionally, there won’t be any new colors years from now. The color spectrum of the future will be exactly the same as it is today. It’s neat to think we already have access to the color palettes of the year 3000.</i> The usual sRGB colorspace used by most of the web is a small fraction of visible colors. Don't get me wrong, it covers most use cases just fine, but it would be nice to fill out the rest sometime. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB</a> (The colored blobby area represents all the shades the human eye can see, and the little triangle represents the colors in sRGB.) Oh and more contrast would be great too!

Some more palette creation tools/resources:<p><a href="http://www.colourlovers.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.colourlovers.com/</a><p><a href="http://colllor.com/" rel="nofollow">http://colllor.com/</a><p><a href="http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthue/" rel="nofollow">http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthue/</a><p><a href="http://www.eigenlogik.com/spectrum/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eigenlogik.com/spectrum/</a> (OS X 10.7+ app)

It works just fine in Internet Explorer 10.<p>Wonder what the purpose of the "Sorry, no Internet Explorer" is.

Slightly related: another useful tool for picking colours is Kuler (<a href="https://kuler.adobe.com/" rel="nofollow">https://kuler.adobe.com/</a>)

I really like the concept and execution. Nice work! I'd like to know how you aggregated the color data. I found the js on github (<a href="https://github.com/nathanspeller/nathanspeller.github.com/blob/master/javascripts/colors.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nathanspeller/nathanspeller.github.com/bl...</a>) and it just seems like you have a giant manually entered list of all the colors that are popular now, which won't be updated unless you update the colors.

I'm glad people are toying around with client-side color algorithms and coming up with ways for people to dynamically choose aesthetically nice colors. I worked on this project <a href="http://dph.am/projects/ImageEyeDropper/" rel="nofollow">http://dph.am/projects/ImageEyeDropper/</a> about a year ago to let people grab colors off an image, find the color range with the highest frequency, and perform some of these color theory functions.

Awesome tool! Love the <i>Sorry, no Internet Explorer</i> note. It's always nice to let users know of browsers that aren't supported by your website :)<p>One minor suggestion: it would be nice to add a simple tooltip on hover of the different swatches and circles that give the rgb/hex value of that particular swatch/circle.

This is awesome! It would be great if I could input a specific hex value for the base color instead of just randomizing.

Great stuff. Offtopic,I recently started designing with crowdsourced pallets from colourlovers and it's been pleasant. You can actually search by mood/feel and you get nice set of colors.<p><a href="http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes" rel="nofollow">http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes</a>

I always find that starting with a selection of color can really jumpstart a design. It'd be really cool if this could also pull from other sources. If I could specify "1970s america" and get color pallets from photos or scanned design works, it would be truly awesome.

Nice concept. There's plenty of algorithmic methods of color scheming out there: - <a href="http://encycolorpedia.com/" rel="nofollow">http://encycolorpedia.com/</a> - <a href="https://kuler.adobe.com/" rel="nofollow">https://kuler.adobe.com/</a>

You should make it possible for people to explore it a bit more organically, say I click on a color, it should show other pallets with that color. It would also be nice to have an easy save image feature if someone finds a color they really like.

Snazzy app - I've used a little program called Agave (for Gnome) for this <a href="http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/" rel="nofollow">http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/</a> - it seems to be based on similar principles.

Neat. I don't know what to do with it though now that I have it.<p>Generating clear palettes as a result of the palettes discovered would be immensely helpful for designers.

Nice! It would be much more useful if one could pick the color manually (instead of random) though.

pretty neat mate.