iroiro (色色)

Colour palettes generated from any word

February 2014

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A web service that automatically generates an evocative color palette from any keyword.

For example:

orange: Straightforward nouns naturally yield expected colors

Google: Brands work seamlessly as well

Winter: Even abstract concepts return fitting palettes

From concrete nouns to abstract emotional terms, the system runs an image search for the entered word, analyzes the dominant color components across the resulting images, and computes an optimal color scheme.

Mechanics & Export Options

Built to allow anyone to derive coherent, concept-driven palettes directly from intuitive keywords without requiring formal design expertise.

Search-Driven Color Clustering: Extracts and clusters dominant hues across image search results, mapping the collective visual impression of a keyword into a palette.
Versatile Export Formats: Generated palettes export into web-friendly CSS and hex codes, custom PowerPoint color themes, XML, and more.
Physical & Spatial Applications: Applied to projection mapping tests, projecting the atmosphere of entered words directly onto furniture and walls to instantly alter room lighting.

A generative tool translating abstract textual concepts into intuitive color design through automated visual analysis.

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Updates

2014-02-01

[:iroiro] lets you generate colour palettes from any word or phrase

What is it

[:iroiro] is a service that automatically generates colour palettes based on any given word or phrase:

(eg: colour palette for "childish")

I built this service after a year of launching various services, realizing that I totally suck at picking colours, and thinking:
"Wouldn't it be great if engineers could just describe the design instead of having to build one for themselves?"
iroiro does just that; you enter any words/phrases that describe your concept, and it generates an appropriate colour scheme, which you can use in your design.

How to use:
(1) Go to: [:iroiro] (http://synthsky.com/iroiro/)
(2) Enter any keyword (e.g.: "fish","iPhone","green")
(3) Export colour palette as XML, CSS, PNG, or even clothes

some examples:

"childish"

Abstract concepts work pretty well

"turtle"

Common nouns give good results too

"sea" and "deep sea"

[:iroiro] can capture the subtle differences in the phrase

"British"

Names of countries work well too.

"Japanese"

"Valentine's Day"

When your client asks you to build a Valentine's day website in 5 hours...

"Dragon Ball"

or whatever.

By automating the process between "deciding on a concept" and "choosing colors to match the concept", [:iroiro] allows you to speed up your design prototyping.

It is especially suitable for engineers who have no design skills (like me :) )

Export features
[:iroiro] lets you export the generated colour palettes into a wide variety of different formats:

○HTML

○CSS
○XML
○Powerpoint color palette
○JSON
○Embed HTML

○ You can even buy clothes to match the colours!

How it works
[:iroiro] works by performing an image search of the given phrase, and extracting representative colors from the found images.

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