Originally posted 2008-06-26 07:13:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
I’m nuts about this little widget, Color Jack and you should be too. Using this lovely colored sphere you can create 19 different types of color schemes. You can view them all for normal vision as well as 10 different kinds of color blindness (including a custom one). Then you can look at it in spectrum, web, and web safe versions, and get the RGB or RYB values for everything.
TOTALLY COOL!
Here it is, play with it!
Now what does this have to do with needlepoint?
Let’s say you have a lovely shade of red yarn, you are just dying to use, but you have no ideas for a color scheme. Find the approximate color in the sphere and click on it. ColorJack will immediately show you a six color scheme, with the colors indicated by dots on the sphere. Each color is also swatched on the left side.
Try the different combos, find one you like and match it to threads in your stash or on a color card and go shopping.
I’m really nuts for the different color blindness options. If you’ve looking for unusual color schemes, often using muted colors, put together a color scheme and then look at how it changes with these different settings.I’m finding some inspiring ideas here.
I’m ready to run right out and work up something for a new Bargello using this.
If you want to learn more aout ColorJack, visit it’s homepage.
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