COLOURlovers.

I should have blogged about COLOURlovers a long time ago. Anyone who's interested in color, this is for you. If you know anything about color, particularly hexadecimal color, you're already home. If you don't know much about color, you'll pick up so much so fast. Either way, you create a little account and amass a collection of unique colors that you put a name to (here's a couple of my alltime faves)

and then build palettes out of your and everyone else's colors:


At this point, there are around 20,000 members, 340,000 colors, and 120,000 palettes registered. Users tag, give feedback about and rank colors and palettes (my current top five palettes run on the sidebar of this blog, actually), and monthly color trends in the media and on the net are monitored. Think Flickr, but with colors instead of photos. I'm a long-standing member at this point, and I've made some solid contacts there, and there's an influx of new membership and activity.

COLOURLovers is one of those rare things on the internet: it'll never cost you a dime, it's benign and all-inclusive in purpose, and the entire community is supportive, genial, and comprised of genuine people. Although it does have a proprietor, the illustrious Darius Monsef, being a Lover feels like being a shareholder and every user has a hand in shaping the site. Plus it supports the arts, which I'm a sucker for.

I could blather on and not do it justice. For some reason, it's always hard to explain. But have a gander; you might be snagged. More on CL to come.

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