Questions tagged [palette]
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Pixel art quartered palette
This is a shoot in the blind, as it is a very old school project I work on. I’m an unprofessional in terms of art and programming, but got the source code (legally obtained) of the first ever 3D ...
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How to expand a simple palette?
I grabbed a fun little neon palette from Paletton (below), and I want to try editing a photo (that I've reduced to a 256-color indexed colormap) to be in the neon palette. I'd like to get more nuanced ...
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How do I copy a color from one project to another in Illustrator?
I have a project that has a color. I want to use that color in a different project.
How do I copy a color from one project to another?
From what I've looked up, it seems like one has to do something ...
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How can I strictly limit the amount of colours Image Trace uses in Adobe Illustrator CC?
When Image Tracing an image, I like to control the amount of colours exactly. As far as I know, older versions allowed this with the 'Colors' slider, enabling me to pick exactly the amount of colours ...
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Software to reduce colors to optimized 512-color custom palette
I need to take a full RGB image, and turn it into image that is optimized for a specific 512 color palette that I already have(I've been hired to make graphics for a Sega Mega Drive game). I can't use ...
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How to pick 32 distinct colors for map drawing?
Here are at least 15 colors by name which are easily recognizable:
white
brown
black
red
orange
yellow
gold
green
blue
purple
pink
turquoise
sea-green
tan
I need 32 distinct colors, as I am going to ...
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Changing Color palette and pixelating
I have a photo of my dog and I thought it would be fun for my kids to reproduce it in chalk on our drive way in large scale, then look at it from our up stairs window (and hopefully learn about colors ...
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Need Help Finding Fitting Colors For This Panel
I've been working on a set of graphic panels and believe I've come up with a good base that fits the theme of the rest of the project they're part of, except that I'm having a very hard time coming up ...
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How to use the color theme of a brand in its design?
The brand I'm creating will be used on a youtube channel and on a dedicated website.
Lets say that the brand has a 3 colors palette, green purple orange.
The main color is green, it is used for the ...
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Reproducing industrial system colors (RAL, NCS, Pantone)
Assuming I have access to equipment that gives me ability to measure precise amounts of fluids - is it possible to reproduce colours of any well-known system (like RAL, NCS...) using avialable ...
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Shades of all the standard system colors from Human Interface Guideline
I would like to leverage the might and convention of Apple's standard colors, however they only provide one shade per color. I would like to create about 10 shades per color for light and dark mode.
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What color scale to choose for a "heated" scatterplot?
I make a graphical R package which includes scatterplots as heatmaps. These plots show the data points of two variables on the x and y axis while colouring them with the values of a third variable. ...
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Given a color palette, is there a formula or are there rules or methods to determine if an additional color will fit with this scheme?
Given a color palette, is there a formula or are there rules or methods to determine if an additional color will fit with this scheme?
For instance, if I wanted to add some vegetation (grass, trees, ...
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Is giving attribution for using color compulsory?
Today I stumbled upon Color Palettes / Terms of Use, which says:
The rights of IN COLOR BALANCE are defended in accordance with the CREATIVE COMMONS license.
It confused me because I thought color ...
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use entire color palette for linear gradient in Inkscape
Is there a quick way to apply an entire color palette to a linear gradient in Inkscape?
I built a custom .gpl file which is available along with the native palettes.
However, I can't see where I can ...
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Color palette generator method for website sections
I want to generate a color palette using coolors.co using this green color (#24855E) as a starting point but I don't know which option to select to generate a palete like the example below.
I was ...
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How to pick the right colors of an image in order to create a efficient color palette for a website?
My aim is to build a color palette for a dark mode website based on an image I've chosen. I would like to know if there is a specific technique or process to pick, among all the colors, the right ...
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How to create shortcuts for color changes in Inkscape?
In Illustrator or InDesign, there are keyboard shortcuts to quickly change the color attributes of the object:
D: Default (no fill, black stroke)
X: Exchange (activates fill or stroke, whichever was ...
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How to fine tune text colors for black background?
In a current project, I want to display formulas with different colours on black background.
My idea is that they are easy to distinguish, have good contrast to the black background and fit together ...
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How to convert .ASE or .ACO color swatch files to .PNG — ONLINE?
Can't find this anywhere, tried the popular online converters.
How do I easily convert .ase or .aco to .png online?
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Reduce image palette to the actual colors
I made this image:
And now I need to save it to Gif, but no matter what I try I end up with an image containing only two colors.
How can I properly reduce the palette of my image to the actual number ...
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How to convert an image to a specific pallette in Inkscape or Gimp
I have the following problem: I have a color palette as *.gpl from InkStitch "Ink/Stitch: Sulky Rayon" which represents the embroidery threads of a specific manufacturer. It has 280 ...
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AI CC - How to pick and store a color from a gradient
I want to extract and store the colors of a gradient one by one, not as a gradient. If a gradient has, say 3 colors, like orange, red and yellow, I want to separate them and store each one in a ...
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How to choose a good color palette that is easy for the eyes, yet convey the deepness of the topic?
This is the map of all topics my project discusses:
Click for full screen. SVG file
Here are the feedback of the viewers:
Person 1: The color is painful to the eyes
Person 2: The graphic is quite ...
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Advice picking colors for a videogame interface
I've been working on developing a card-based browser game, and I have to say graphic design isn't my forte.
This is what the user interface for the game looks like
I'm not too sure about the choice ...
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Adding noise to an image with a limited palette
Backstory: I am designing the pattern in PhotoShop of a quilt my wife is making. The quilt is made of 15x20 squares of exactly six shades of blue - dark at one end to light at the other end. The ...
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What is the math behind these color combinations?
In short, I want to know what the theory is behind the Helpscout colour palette. I think it has something to do with material.io?
https://style.helpscout.com/visual-elements/
Now I've always had my ...
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What iMac colour profile provides stable colour palettes with Microsoft 365 for Mac?
PROBLEM:
I designed a custom Powerpoint theme on Microsoft 365 for Mac. It appeared to save but when I reopened the file, the RGB value of one colour changed by a value of 1. (R=98 dropped to R=97) I ...
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Where to find or how to make large harmonious color palettes?
For a website, I have a list of some 500-1000 items. I would like to display them individually with(in) e.g. a colored card but also as combinations of 2 up to ~5 items/colors. So, if I would display ...
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Picking distinctive colors for close wireframe drawings?
I am working on a video game level editor, here you have a wireframe rendering that shows various properties, each having a unique color but it's hardly clear to be honest:
Now if I zoom in, things ...
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How to replace a VERY specific color (HEX code) for another one in Photoshop?
I'm working in doing a map for a 2D game. The image is saved to PNG and loaded by the game. However, the game detects true black (HEX #000000) as background, and makes it transparent in-game. Since I'...
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Why is my version of Gimp missing the palette to gradient tool? [closed]
For some reason my version of gimp is missing certain features/buttons
I am trying to create a gradient from a palette but when I right click on the palette it is missing the option to do what is ...
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Good broad CMYK rainbow color palette?
I sometimes use Illustrator as a drawing board for online lessons, and I'd like to have a good calm, but vivid full color palette for writing or drawing, preferably CMYK. Illustrator has a lot of ...
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How can I add more swatches and gradients to a swatch library?
I've created a color scheme on Adobe Color web page and exported it to use on Illustrator (let's name it as "my custom palette"), now I have one more color and one gradient I'd like to add ...
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Set order for colours in gpl colour palette in Inkscape
I was able to create a .gpl file colour palette which is working fine with Inkscape. Sadly, the colours auto arranged themselves in some funny order. Probably from ffffff to 000000. All I had to do ...
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Palette of at least 10 hues with 4 lightness levels (by perceived appearance)
For a user interface I need at least 10 distinctive perceived hues, to get a palette with these criteria:
The palette should have at least 10 hues and 4 lightness levels for each hue (dark, medium-...
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How to create harmonious color palette?
Look at these harmonious colors, they come from Google Material Design. I'm wondering how did Google designers create them? Expert knows that dark yellow will turn into lemon (with little green in it),...
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Color scheme trasformations
Given a set of colors, say colors on this webpage, and another palette of an equal number of colors, what would be a good way to map the former to the latter while:
preserving contrast between ...
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How do I select objects in Render view?
I'm trying to select a single 1x1 cube to have it emit light (like a lamp), but I'm confused trying to figure out how to select it while in Render mode. I've tried selecting it while in Model, then ...
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How do you create color scales? [closed]
I know that you can tint a color to white and shade it to black but this is not always good enough to me as it can produce very desaturated results.
Also will you take in consideration to have a ...
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Generate palette from image
I want to automatically generate a palette from an image.
Something like this, where the output is an image a single pixel tall, and 256 pixels wide, from all the colors of an input image.
I've ...
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Primary color and accent from similar colors
I am new to material design and still learning.
Is it a good idea to have the primary color and the accent from similar palettes, e.g Blue 500 and Light Blue A200? Or is the whole idea of the ...
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Dribbble color palette to Sketch app
I've downloaded dribbble color palette and wanted to install it on Sketch (version 50). Is it possible to do that? How to install color palettes on Sketch?
ps. I also have Sketch Palettes plugin ...
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Generate colorful streamline pattern (using FOSS)
I found a very interesting pattern, which I would like to recreate:
Source
I tried to start with the RGB-Noise filter of Gimp, but didn't get a comparable pattern so far. I understood, that there ...
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Inkscape palettes
I’ve run into what I can only assume is a bug, but would like some confirmation and ideally a workaround if possible.
I've set up an palette in Inkscape (0.92) and have applied it to my illustration. ...
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How to argue for color choices?
I'm primarily a UX/Interaction Designer, however, since I'm working for a fairly small company I'm having to overlap to graphic and visual design. I'm fine with this however I'm having a few problems. ...
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Creating a palette from two *intermediate* colors
I am given 7 categories and 2 colors: blue (#02A7E3) and orange (#F6A800). There are numerous online tools to interpolate between these two, for instance:
But what if I don't want my given colors to ...
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What's the best way to create and manage palettes on Linux?
I'd like to find a solution to create and manage (edit, save, export) palettes on a Linux laptop.
Ideally I'd like to have functionalities similar to webapps like Coolors, Colormind, Paletton, or to ...
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How to find the nearest color from a list of 9 in Photoshop?
I've a picture of an static object correctly balanced and exposed:
I would like to sample the nearest color from my own palette of 9 RGB or Lab using Photoshop:
Colour palette:
#8270a4
#aa83cb
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Can a palette for use in a continuous-color plot be considered under copyright?
This question is an extension of the question asked here, which I feel does not completely answer my question.
Say a website or software has continuous-color graphs, such as this color contour map ...
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