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Kuler without Flash

112 points by Techasura 13y ago

leeoniya 13y ago
this is awesome, though i'd prefer not to scroll and also have the sizes for stuff like the wheel reduced quite a bit. seems like it's optimized for tablets or something.
geon 13y ago
Is their new API out yet? I seriously hope they stopped using RSS.
- polarix 13y ago
  what?
  - geon 13y ago
    The old API used RSS as its data format. Yes, really.
maxgaudin 13y ago
Yes this has been a long time coming
minikites 13y ago
The new Kuler iOS app is pretty snazzy too. I don't do anything with design in any of my projects, but it's fun to point the camera at things and watch the app pick out colors.
znowi 13y ago
This is good news. But oddly enough, I can't copy color values in Firefox :/
- eksith 13y ago
  I was able to in FF. The highlight color is black (very poor contrast choice), so maybe it looked like the text wasn't copied? Try Ctrl+A with Ctrl+C. That usually works.
OWaz 13y ago
I haven't been able to get this working in Chrome at work because some js scripts fail to download. Firefox is okay though.
- dunham 13y ago
  Are you running Ghostery? I noticed that at least one of the scripts that ghostery blocks is needed for this to work. A small number of web pages are broken by ghostery, because their javascript calls functions in a blocked script.
  - OWaz 13y ago
    You're right. It was Adobe Analytics(omniture) being blocked which preventing the site from functioning. I'll keep Ghostery in mind whenever I see odd things happening. Thanks for pointing that out.
yumraj 13y ago
Can someone explain what these are used for? Are these the colors, in a particular scheme, that go well together, so can be used together in an app (web/mobile/etc.?) Is there any implied order in these, such as which color should go where, or that is an exercise left to the designer? Also, just curious if these can/are used when painting house/building?
- egonschiele 13y ago
  You can use this for any project that requires color. This helps you pick colors that work well together for a specific purpose. For example, analogous / monochromatic colors work well together to set a mood, such as the overall theme of a website, or painting. Or you can use them to find colors for your house. Then you can find complementary colors that are good for accents. If you're building a website, use them for headers or captions. If you're painting a house, use them for colorful lamps or frames. Color theory is complex, and this app makes it easy to use without knowing all the intricacies.
- mmahemoff 13y ago
  The color wheel is a standard way to explore colors that go well together. Before digital design, I think it was more commonly used in print than buildings, but I suppose it's possible. You could also try http://ColourLovers.com http://ColourLovers.com for specific patterns.
cheshire137 13y ago
Yeah, but I can't find a way to pull colors from an image anymore, which makes this useless to me. I've switched entirely to ColourLovers http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add which still has the palette-from-image feature.
ben_pr 13y ago
Umm yeah, this would be kewl if it worked, but it doesn't work in FF for me and it does in Chrome. EDIT: {"arguments":{"0":"ReferenceError: mboxDefine is not defined","1":"https://kuler.adobe.com/build01/resource/js/external/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.js","2":14 https://kuler.adobe.com/build01/resource/js/external/jquery/...},"page":"https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/","browser":"Mozilla/5.0 https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/","browser":"Mozi... (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0","build":"build8"} https://kuler.adobe.com/build8/resource/js/util.js https://kuler.adobe.com/build8/resource/js/util.js Line 1
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- azakai 13y ago
  Works ok here on FF25 (nightly).
- ics 13y ago
  FF22 works fine here (OS X). Edit: Also see below re: ghostery (or other blockers).
kmfrk 13y ago
I recommend Colorbrewer (Flash site, sorry) for choosing colours for graphs and charts safe for colour-blind people and general discernibility: http://colorbrewer2.org http://colorbrewer2.org. (It's the default go-to colour scheme for d3.js devs.) +++ EDIT; Use this link, if you don't have Flash: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5577023 http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5577023.
- tptacek 13y ago
  Colorbrewer is so great. If you haven't clicked through: it generates sequential, diverging (contrasty) and quantitative color schemes, of the sort you'd use in map coloring. It's one of those Tufte-y sorts of design resources, like _Cartographic Relief Presentations_, and it's extremely simple to use when building stuff.
  - kmfrk 13y ago
    Here is a hackish way to show d3-creator Mike Bostock's samples that use Colorbrewer: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abl.ocks.org%2Fmbostock%20colorbrewer https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abl.ocks.o.... These don't require Flash - "obviously", I'm tempted to say.
- aw3c2 13y ago
  There is a javascript version hidden at http://colorbrewer2.org/js/ http://colorbrewer2.org/js/
mbell 13y ago
Another option I've been using a lot lately: http://colourco.de/ http://colourco.de/
civilian 13y ago
Here's a similar tool-- PaletteComp! http://palettecomp.com/ http://palettecomp.com/ If you have 5 color hexes and you actually want to see what it would look like in a mock webpage, you can use our tool! PaletteComp also is able to import colourlover palette urls. Disclaimer: I built this and it's hosted on a free-tier heroku instance... so it might be a little slow.
fidz 13y ago
Kuler is widely used by designer for choosing color combination and share their own palette. It is a great webapps. It is previously developed in Flash. Now there is no Flash. I use kuler extensively. And I think the functionality is still the same, even if they port it into different platform (pure html js css, no flash)
- garethadams 13y ago
  Did I miss the bit where we're happy about the GUYS WHO MAKE FLASH replacing their own Flash-based site with an HTML5 implementation? Are we not impressed by that at all?
gcb0 13y ago
Without flash and with dumb blocking of modern browsers. They do user agent string filtering and deny access if does not match a whitelist. that's just silly.
- fidz 13y ago
  What is the reason users don't update their browser?
  - gcb0 13y ago
    No, I'm pretty sure my browser has all the capabilities, but instead of checking for them, they look for 2 or 3 very specific browsers/versions and deny access to the rest.
joeblau 13y ago
Awesome, this is one of the last flash websites that I still use and the flash implementation is so annoying because it doesn't respect the browsers state. Thanks Adobe!

112 points by Techasura 13y ago

this is awesome, though i'd prefer not to scroll and also have the sizes for stuff like the wheel reduced quite a bit. seems like it's optimized for tablets or something.

geon 13y ago

Is their new API out yet? I seriously hope they stopped using RSS.

polarix 13y ago
what?
- geon 13y ago
  The old API used RSS as its data format. Yes, really.

maxgaudin 13y ago

Yes this has been a long time coming

minikites 13y ago

The new Kuler iOS app is pretty snazzy too. I don't do anything with design in any of my projects, but it's fun to point the camera at things and watch the app pick out colors.

znowi 13y ago

This is good news. But oddly enough, I can't copy color values in Firefox :/

eksith 13y ago
I was able to in FF. The highlight color is black (very poor contrast choice), so maybe it looked like the text wasn't copied? Try Ctrl+A with Ctrl+C. That usually works.

OWaz 13y ago

I haven't been able to get this working in Chrome at work because some js scripts fail to download. Firefox is okay though.

dunham 13y ago
Are you running Ghostery? I noticed that at least one of the scripts that ghostery blocks is needed for this to work. A small number of web pages are broken by ghostery, because their javascript calls functions in a blocked script.
- OWaz 13y ago
  You're right. It was Adobe Analytics(omniture) being blocked which preventing the site from functioning. I'll keep Ghostery in mind whenever I see odd things happening. Thanks for pointing that out.

yumraj 13y ago

Can someone explain what these are used for? Are these the colors, in a particular scheme, that go well together, so can be used together in an app (web/mobile/etc.?) Is there any implied order in these, such as which color should go where, or that is an exercise left to the designer? Also, just curious if these can/are used when painting house/building?

egonschiele 13y ago
You can use this for any project that requires color. This helps you pick colors that work well together for a specific purpose. For example, analogous / monochromatic colors work well together to set a mood, such as the overall theme of a website, or painting. Or you can use them to find colors for your house. Then you can find complementary colors that are good for accents. If you're building a website, use them for headers or captions. If you're painting a house, use them for colorful lamps or frames. Color theory is complex, and this app makes it easy to use without knowing all the intricacies.
mmahemoff 13y ago
The color wheel is a standard way to explore colors that go well together. Before digital design, I think it was more commonly used in print than buildings, but I suppose it's possible. You could also try http://ColourLovers.com http://ColourLovers.com for specific patterns.

cheshire137 13y ago

Yeah, but I can't find a way to pull colors from an image anymore, which makes this useless to me. I've switched entirely to ColourLovers http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add which still has the palette-from-image feature.

ben_pr 13y ago

Umm yeah, this would be kewl if it worked, but it doesn't work in FF for me and it does in Chrome. EDIT: {"arguments":{"0":"ReferenceError: mboxDefine is not defined","1":"https://kuler.adobe.com/build01/resource/js/external/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.js","2":14 https://kuler.adobe.com/build01/resource/js/external/jquery/...},"page":"https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/","browser":"Mozilla/5.0 https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/","browser":"Mozi... (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0","build":"build8"} https://kuler.adobe.com/build8/resource/js/util.js https://kuler.adobe.com/build8/resource/js/util.js Line 1

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azakai 13y ago
Works ok here on FF25 (nightly).
ics 13y ago
FF22 works fine here (OS X). Edit: Also see below re: ghostery (or other blockers).

kmfrk 13y ago

I recommend Colorbrewer (Flash site, sorry) for choosing colours for graphs and charts safe for colour-blind people and general discernibility: http://colorbrewer2.org http://colorbrewer2.org. (It's the default go-to colour scheme for d3.js devs.) +++ EDIT; Use this link, if you don't have Flash: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5577023 http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5577023.

tptacek 13y ago
Colorbrewer is so great. If you haven't clicked through: it generates sequential, diverging (contrasty) and quantitative color schemes, of the sort you'd use in map coloring. It's one of those Tufte-y sorts of design resources, like _Cartographic Relief Presentations_, and it's extremely simple to use when building stuff.
- kmfrk 13y ago
  Here is a hackish way to show d3-creator Mike Bostock's samples that use Colorbrewer: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abl.ocks.org%2Fmbostock%20colorbrewer https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abl.ocks.o.... These don't require Flash - "obviously", I'm tempted to say.
aw3c2 13y ago
There is a javascript version hidden at http://colorbrewer2.org/js/ http://colorbrewer2.org/js/

mbell 13y ago

Another option I've been using a lot lately: http://colourco.de/ http://colourco.de/

civilian 13y ago

Here's a similar tool-- PaletteComp! http://palettecomp.com/ http://palettecomp.com/ If you have 5 color hexes and you actually want to see what it would look like in a mock webpage, you can use our tool! PaletteComp also is able to import colourlover palette urls. Disclaimer: I built this and it's hosted on a free-tier heroku instance... so it might be a little slow.

fidz 13y ago

Kuler is widely used by designer for choosing color combination and share their own palette. It is a great webapps. It is previously developed in Flash. Now there is no Flash. I use kuler extensively. And I think the functionality is still the same, even if they port it into different platform (pure html js css, no flash)

garethadams 13y ago
Did I miss the bit where we're happy about the GUYS WHO MAKE FLASH replacing their own Flash-based site with an HTML5 implementation? Are we not impressed by that at all?

gcb0 13y ago

Without flash and with dumb blocking of modern browsers. They do user agent string filtering and deny access if does not match a whitelist. that's just silly.

fidz 13y ago
What is the reason users don't update their browser?
- gcb0 13y ago
  No, I'm pretty sure my browser has all the capabilities, but instead of checking for them, they look for 2 or 3 very specific browsers/versions and deny access to the rest.

joeblau 13y ago

Awesome, this is one of the last flash websites that I still use and the flash implementation is so annoying because it doesn't respect the browsers state. Thanks Adobe!