CoColor - Interior Color Inspiration
Pick real-world colors and find matching interior ideas
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Pick real-world colors and find matching interior ideas
12 followers
CoColor is an Android app for choosing interior colors from the real world. Point your camera at a room, wall, floor, furniture, fabric, or object, and CoColor extracts the palette, suggests matching colors, finds close RAL Classic paint matches, and helps you search for similar interior references. I built it after repainting my own hallway dark blue and realizing that reference images make bold color choices much less scary.
Does the RAL match actually factor in the lighting conditions of the room when you take the photo, or is it just picking the closest static swatch to whatever the camera captures?
@demetpiiret9fy Great question!
Short answer: It picks the closest static swatch to whatever the camera captures.
However, the app provides manual white balance and saturation controls to compensate for lighting. There's also an eyedropper tool - tap any gray or white surface in your room and the app will auto-adjust the white balance based on that reference point. This helps neutralize the lighting conditions before matching to RAL colors.
So it's not fully automatic, but you have the tools to correct for your room's lighting.
Love that it pulls real RAL matches instead of generic swatches, that grounding in actual paint codes is what makes the suggestions feel usable rather than just pretty.
@phardinghy4670 Thanks for the feedback! That's exactly the goal - making it practical for real-world use. RAL codes mean you can actually walk into a paint shop or order online with confidence, rather than guessing what "coral sunset" translates to in reality.
Love this idea, the RAL match feature is super useful for actually getting paint. One thing that would make it even better is letting users save palettes and label them per room or project, so when you are planning a full home refresh you can revisit your hallway palette next to the living room one without losing them in your camera roll.
@uleqp36 The app has a "Saved" tab where you can store palettes in one place instead of your camera roll.
However, it doesn't currently support custom labels - saved palettes show the date/time they were created. That would be a great feature to add though!
The RAL match feature is genuinely handy, way more useful than I expected when I just wanted to eyeball a moody green from a cafe wall. Suggesting complementary colors straight from a photo makes picking a palette feel less like guesswork.
@keremdbga Glad it's working well for you! That's exactly the goal - take the guesswork out and give you actionable paint codes you can actually use. The complementary suggestions are there to help you build out a full scheme without having to be a color theory expert.
Picked a pillow off my couch and got three paint codes back that were actually close to the fabric, which saved me from guessing in the store.
@cafer_ak25358 That's awesome! Exactly the kind of real-world use case the app was built for - matching existing items instead of guessing under fluorescent store lighting. Glad it saved you the hassle.