calcolor.co

Calculate colors. Share palettes.

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Calculate colors. Share palettes.

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A new way to manage digital colors. Leave abstract color models behind and focus on the important things. Preview a color, find its matching counterparts or modify the color composition. Create shareable color palettes and turn them into living style guides.

Launch tags:Web App•Design Tools•Productivity

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Very well built. Beautiful looking and simple UX. But I'm sorry to say I don't understand the Chart function. Why isn't is made as HSB, which I feel is way more easy to edit?

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6yr ago

calcolor.co

Maker

@lars_hartmann Thanks a lot you for your kind and important feedback! The color chart is indeed meant to be an easier-to-use alternative to current color models like RGB or HSL/HSV/HSB. These models require to use three separate sliders which interact with each other in a way that is hard to predict (at least for novices). The color chart integrates different sliders into one single view and therefore makes the connection between the settings clearer. Instead of manipulating predefined parameters you can use it to simply edit the ingredients of a color, like mixing colors in the real world. And similar as within the HSB model, you can still manipulate H with the slider on the right, S with the middle slider and B with the slider on the left. But you are right, maybe it would be cool to provide an option to switch between different color models…

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6yr ago

calcolor.co

Maker

@lars_hartmann PS: The color chart is heavily based on the findings of Harald Küppers (http://kuepperscolor.farbaks.de).

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6yr ago

Tried to sign up. I am NOT getting the verification email. I did check my spam and garbage folders and there is no email there either. Thanks

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6yr ago

calcolor.co

Maker

@donnaskolnick Hi Donna, I’m sorry to hear that you can’t verify your email address. It seems that your email provider is rejecting the verification email (I saw an error saying “mailbox unavailable”). Please send an email to hi@calcolor.co and I’ll activate your account manually.

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6yr ago

wow! impressing and something really new! I will use it. Hope to see an iphone/ipad app one day. I think it will work great on touch screens.

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6yr ago

calcolor.co

Maker

@bekzat Thank you! I’m glad that you like the tool. The site is fully responsive, so you can already use it on your smartphone. If you add it to your home screen (via sharing menu) it works almost like a real app. A native app would be nice though, I also hope to have one in the future! :)

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6yr ago

calcolor.co

Maker

Hi hunters, since I already got to know some great tools here, I would like to introduce you a little project of myself today. I wrote my master’s thesis about the bad UX of digital color models. To propose an alternative, I created a web-based color palette management tool for designers, developers and everyone else. Please note that the application is still in an early beta state and there are some more features in the pipeline. Feedback greatly appreciated!

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6yr ago

Would like to know how this is different from the color picker tool? TIA

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6yr ago

calcolor.co

Maker

@bmadhumanti A color picker is the right tool to work with colors within the same software. As calcolor is a web application, it doesn’t depend on a certain software and therefore can be used to save colors in a cross-platform manner. Its strength is the simple reference and exchange of colors with others. You can’t use a color picker for that (as far as I know).

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6yr ago