Dark Mode Inspiration

April 29, 2021 at 12:55 pm

I’m dig­ging in and giv­ing the site lit­tle revamps in a few places. Better type, bet­ter respon­sive han­dling, cleanup some code. In look­ing to add a dark mode, I ran across this exam­ple by Max Böck who dialed the idea to eleven with a color theme switch­er fea­tur­ing ten options. I don’t think I’m going to do ten but three or four might be nice.

Web page screenshot from mxb.dev color theme switcher, dark mode, css custom properties

colorpalettes.earth

April 12, 2021 at 10:20 am

Simple, straight­for­ward, noth­ing more, and noth­ing less. Color inspi­ra­tion from nature pho­tos. Most of the palettes might be too mono­chro­mat­ic for applied use, but they are a great start­ing point for ideas. Plus, tak­ing a scroll can be pret­ty relax­ing as the imagery and pre­sen­ta­tion is calming.

Misty evergreen forest, color palette inspiration, color circles, frosty dark greens, misty blues

Rams Palettes

February 25, 2021 at 3:00 pm

Maybe it’s time for some design stuff on this “design” blog. Here’s some sim­ple — dare I say proven — color com­bi­na­tions from Braun prod­ucts designed by leg­endary min­i­mal­ist Dieter Rams.

Dieter Rams Color Palette for Braun products, muted browns and gray, speaker grille

Made by Chad Ashley via Present /&/ Correct

Coolors.co — Color Palette Generator

October 27, 2014 at 3:39 pm

I always like fun, single-task tools that make inspi­ra­tion easy. How about color palettes just by click­ing the space­bar? Coolors.co let’s you do just that. Like a color and want to lock it in? Click on it, then keep hit­ting space­bar to build a palette around that color. You can also paste in your own hexa­dec­i­mal val­ues if you already have a color you want to start with. Palettes are easy to share because the URL has all the val­ues in it. Just copy and paste. Here’s one I cre­at­ed earlier.

Coolors.co Color Palette, color theory, complementary, hex colors

Oh, and it’s respon­sive too. Definitely give it a try on your mobile device.

Pokémon Color Palettes

September 11, 2014 at 11:45 am

Reddit user need12648430 wrote a script to break­down the col­ors used in mak­ing the col­or­ful pock­et mon­sters called Pokémon. Most of the color palettes are great inspi­ra­tion as they show color the­o­ry con­cepts like com­ple­men­tary and anal­o­gous schemes. It’s also great to see how much vari­a­tion and and com­plex­i­ty goes into some­thing as sim­ple as 8‑bit characters.

Pokemon Color Palettes by Reddit user need12648430, 8bit, sprites, color theory, pie charts

And yes, I know I’m show­ing off some of my geek­ness with this post. What would be even more geeky is if I were to dis­close that I have a col­lec­tion of Pokémon trad­ing cards that I gath­ered in my teenage years safe­ly tucked away. IF I were to dis­close that. AND IF that were true…

*rum­mage* *rum­mage* “If I were a Pokémon were would I hide in this attic…” *rum­mage* *rum­mage*

(via Polygon)