Manipulating Color Data with phpColors

Matt — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:34:39 +0000

phpColors is an interesting library that makes it easy to work with colors in PHP. It can determine whether a color is dark or light, as well as darken or lighten a color incrementally, as well as generate complementary colors. It has functions that output hexadecimal or HSL representations of the color, or a gradient array.

It makes it super easy to do something like this:

using phpColors\Color;
$color = new Color("#eeeeee");

if ( $color->isLight() ) {
	$gradient = $color->makeGradient();
	// array( "light" => "the_light_color_hex", "dark" => "the_dark_color_hex" )
}

phpColors [GitHub]

Create Color Palettes With ColorSchemer Touch

Matt — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:26:18 +0000

If you do even a little bit of web or graphic design, you might have run into a cool poster or product label somewhere and thought “I like this color scheme.” ColorSchemer Touch is a neat iOS app that will help you out with those situations. If you snap a photo, it will let you tap colors within it and build a color palette.

It also has a couple of manual color pickers, including a basic color wheel and the nifty “LiveSchemes” tool, and integration with Colour Lovers. So you can browse and save other palettes as well as creating your own. You can easily email color palettes or save them to your camera roll, as well as syncing them to Color Lovers.

ColorSchemer Touch is currently free on iTunes, though I believe it is usually $2.99.

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Manipulating Color Data with phpColors

Create Color Palettes With ColorSchemer Touch