iroiro (色色)Colour palettes generated from any word[: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
[:iroiro] can capture the subtle differences in the phrase
"British"
Names of countries work well too.
"Japanese"
When your client asks you to build a Valentine's day website in 5 hours...
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.