Colorjack: Finding Value In A Color Suite
For designers and anyone looking to bring a bit of color into their lives, web 2.0 color tools are a fun, exact way of finding colors and complementary hues. One color tool is ColorJack, but don’t think that the line of color tiles you see when you arrive are all you get - the long lines of tiles are just the surface of the palette.
Once we run our mice over the tiles, we see swatches popup, and it becomes clear that each tile is symbolic of paired colors. Click on a tile and you see a new page comprised of those colors, with a right hand panel of different panels. At the bottom of our selected color swatch we see the catalog numbers (hex, hsv, rgb, cmyk) of the colors, should we want to apply our choice to paints or print outside of ColorJack. Export options are also available for Illustrator, Photoshop, and Studio formats.
ColorJack in of itself would be a worthwhile resource for color matching and pairing, but ColorJack also offers two tools to help you generate colors. The first, linked off the main page of ColorJack, is called Color Galaxy, which allows users to see how colors are dispersed across the value wheel in different systems. Say we were designing a brochure that had a vintage feel, but would also need to be online. Through the pulldown menu we could select one of the vintage palettes (we selected Munsell 1943), make a note of the colors we liked, and then compare them to Windows or X11 (also in the pulldown menu). Now we not only have colors we like, but we can see how they are approximated under different color sets.
ColorJack’s tool to generate color is called Sphere, and appears with a color wheel and value slider bars. You can change hue, saturation, balance, reds, greens, and blues through the slider bars to get the colors you choose. As you do, you will see the dots that mark your color choices on the wheel move with your changes, staying in the relationship set in the pulldown menu on top. Complimentary, tetradic, clashing, whichever relation you would like to have your colors to have. Additional filters are also in pulldown menus for Websafe, different types of vision (color value), rgb or ryb. Best of all, your selections are exportable via Illustrator, Photoshop, Sphere, studio, or url. ColorJack’s Sphere is also a downloadable widget so that your color tool is available at any time.
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