one for the chromaphiles

dabbling with the COLOURlovers API

In my zest for free information, I ran across the COLOURlovers API. This Flash demo pulls a random color palette from the COLOURlovers database and animates transitions between the next random palette with each mouse click.

Lately I’ve found myself struggling to find the right color palette for the job. COLOURlovers and Kuler have each been a boon, but sometimes an individual or random palette will stand out more than a color-specific list or a simple keyword search. In that respect, this little demo application has been useful for my own design purposes.

Below the Flash version is a JavaScript/jQuery version that basically mirrors the palette program. The JSON callbacks can sometimes be a little slower per palette, but I like the option of avoiding Flash for a number of reasons…

 

view the fullscreen JavaScript version