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Color swatch
Color swatch







color swatch
  1. COLOR SWATCH GENERATOR
  2. COLOR SWATCH MANUAL
  3. COLOR SWATCH SERIES

COLOR SWATCH GENERATOR

The Single Hue Scale generator is most useful for visualizations where you’re showing the value of a single variable. Is there another feature you'd like to see in it? Let me know.

  • Design Hacks, my email newsletter where I send original design tips and tactics to 50,000+ of my closest friends.Īnyhow, I've created this to be the tool I wish I had for creating data visualization palettes.
  • Color in UI Design: A Practical Framework.
  • The HSB Color System: A Practitioner's Primer.
  • If you're new to color in UI design, I highly recommend the following resources:
  • For data visualizations where you’re showing the strength of a single value, try using the Single Hue Palette Generator instead.
  • Users will recognize your brand color by its hue much far more than by it’s exact saturation/brightness.
  • If you’re using a brand color for one endpoint, don’t be afraid to modify the saturation and brightness a bit if it creates a more pleasing palette.
  • one warm, one cool one bright, one darker – so that your palette covers a wider range
  • Try picking very different endpoint colors – e.g.
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    Here are a few tips for getting the best palette: You can choose at least one to be a brand color, which gives you significant flexibility in creating a palette that will work for your visualizations, yet be customized for your brand. This color picker allows you to specify both endpoints of the palette. It’s far simpler for our brains to distinguish, say, yellow from orange than blue from blue-but-15%-lighter. It’s better to use use a range of hues so users can cross-reference with the key easier. I’m sure we’ve all looked at charts where you can hardly use the key since the data colors are so similar.įor instance, Google Analytics does a terrible job with this: Just try to use this key. Why? When colors are not visually equidistant, it’s harder to (a) tell them apart in the chart, and (b) compare the chart to the key. Note: there are two other modes besides palette mode – check out single-hue scales and divergent scales as well.Ĭreating visually equidistant palettes is basically impossible to do by hand, yet hugely important for data visualizations. This is useful for many data visualizations, like pie charts, grouped bar charts, and maps.

    COLOR SWATCH SERIES

    Even if it’s not being used for work, Swatches is good plain fun at any level and really makes you look at the world with a new set of eyes (or, in this case, color picker).Use the palette chooser to create a series of colors that are visually equidistant. I love the palette and share functionalities straight from the app (no more screenshots filling up my phone). And we all know Bossanova is a lot more luxurious than that standard issue purple. It has made me look at colors completely differently and infused objects (and people) with a whole new personality- it’s not just my “purple” comforter anymore, but my “Bossanova” comforter. I was concerned about the accuracy of the color sampling, but the ability to adjust the white balance makes the app adaptable to nearly any lighting situation. Whereas I used to have to take a picture, import it into Photoshop, grab the color with the eyedropper, then apply that value to whatever its final destination was, I can now get nearly any value I need as soon as I capture the color. The versatility of Swatches in providing various color values has sped up my workflow tremendously. Accessibility support: Swatches supports VoiceOver for the visually impaired and supplies color type information for the color blind.Īs a filmmaker and web developer, color is constantly on the forefront of my mind. Build your own Palettes: Your Swatches get lonely all on their own, group them into Palettes and watch them work together! Burst Mode: Don't want to commit to one Swatch at a time? Capture a Burst and pick your favorite, you can always change your mind later! Share your Swatches: Know you got a great Swatch? Share it! Copy, Email, Text, Facebook, Twitter, Airdrop and even send your Swatches directly to other users. Check out your Swatches: View your Swatches as RGB or Hex values and even see the nearest paint and Pantone colors! If color values aren't your thing, fullscreen your Swatch and use it as a reference.

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    Swatch your photos: Have a saved image that you want to Swatch? No problem, just press the gallery button and select it from your camera roll!

    COLOR SWATCH MANUAL

    Pick the perfect color: Swatches supports manual white balance and exposure for maximum accuracy! Capture Swatches on the fly: Sampling begins immediately, no need to take a photo first. Swatches is a fun and accurate color picker for the real world.









    Color swatch