Color Inspirations: More than 3,000 Innovative Palettes from the Colourlovers.Com Community - Softcover

Monsef IV, Darius A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600619452 ISBN 13: 9781600619458

Publisher: HOW Books, 2011

Synopsis

The rules for color are not black and white. 

  

Color Inspirations contains some of the very best color palettes from the popular website COLOURlovers.com, organized by color family in a logical, easy-to-use format. In this complete reference, you'll discover 3,286 fresh, inspiring color palettes--ready to be applied to your latest design or project and complete with accurate CMYK, RGB and HEX values. In fact, you can use the included CD to import any color palette into your design software immediately.

  

This comprehensive book also includes a brief primer on color theory and an inspiration section that will help you discover new color combinations in the world around you. It contains everything you need to find the best color palettes for your project in a snap.

  

From the Introduction:

"We all have some common connections and associations to color based on cultural influences and popular theories, but color is ultimately a unique experience for all of us. And because of that, there is not just one set of rules for how to think about and use color. We live in a global community with tools that allow us to create something independently and share it with the masses. This interconnected environment generates a much wider spectrum of color ideas and color applications."

About this title

About the Author

Darius is the Founder & CEO of COLOURlovers.com, a VC backed startup sharing the love of color with the world and empowering anybody to be a designer with super simple creative tools and access to a massive library of quality content. COLOURlovers is a 5x Webby Nominee for Best Community and won Best App in the Shorty Awards for Themeleon.com.  The COLOURlovers creative community reaches nearly 2 million people each month and hosts more than 1.5 million member created color palettes.

Darius also cofounded Hands.org an international disaster relief NGO that organizes volunteers in the wake of a natural disaster to help those affected recover. He's spent more than a year living in disaster areas around the world organizing thousands of volunteers.

Edition details

• Publisher: HOW Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1600619452
• ISBN 13: 9781600619458
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 256