http://www.colorschemer.com/blog Color, design, development and the internet Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:52:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ah, the good old days...filled with recess, eating glue, and scribbling with rainbow-colored crayons like only a 6-year-old could. And while your drawings might not have been masterpieces, you can capture the fun, creatively-named colors of your childhood (or even your child's childhood) on the web with this list of Crayola ... http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2008/03/21/120-crayons-on-the-web/ Hot on the heels of the v1.5.4 release, ColorSchemer Studio OSX v1.5.5 (Mac) is now available. Among the improvements in this new release: Export your colors to Apple Color Picker (clr) files, which you can use to load all of your colors into the standard Mac OS X color picker. There ... http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2008/03/12/colorschemer-studio-osx-155-mac-released/ If you missed out on the holiday savings last year, here's an early gift from some of your favorite Mac developers: MacSanta! MacSanta features software from 5 different Mac developers each day, offered at a 20% discount to you. And today only, you can receive a 20% discount off the price of ... http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/12/12/macsanta-is-back-with-big-savings/ For all of the Mac users making the move to Leopard, ColorSchemer Studio is compatible with Mac OS X Leopard. Also, if you use the Dashboard Galleria widget, a new version (v1.1) has been released to fix an issue with its display on the Leopard Dashboard. http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/11/05/leopard-compatibility/ While people are gearing up for October with all kinds of breast cancer events and fundraisers, there's another growing group of people spreading the word across the internet. Pink for October is a campaign that started last year, in 2006 with a small group of web designers who wanted to design ... http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/09/21/pink-for-october/ Buried among the bigger product announcements coming out of today's much anticipated media event, Apple announced a refresh of their iPod Nano and Shuffle lines. Besides some new features and a fatter form factor for the Nano, both the Nano and Shuffle are now available in a few fresh new colors: iPod ... http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/09/05/new-ipod-colors/ We’re going to be adding a little something to the ColorSchemer blog every couple of weeks by showing various color schemes based on a single color theme - and you can participate! Each time we post a color theme, we’ll mention the theme for the next article in the series. You’ll ... http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/08/29/inspired-color-schemes-blue/ Following up on the ingenious color-changing coffee lids, here's another neat idea to make your coffee-drinking experience even better: color-matching coffee mugs. From the maker: "Mugs to help you mix your favourite brew to just-how-you-like-it by matching the colour guide on the inside. Available in Tea or Coffee styles." Just add milk/cream/sugar/etc to ... http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/08/20/color-matching-mugs-for-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee/ Now here's an ingenious product: Sydney-based Smart Lid Systems has developed a coffee lid that uses color to let you know when it's safe to drink your beverage. If your drink is too hot, the normally-brown lid will turn bright red to warn you that you're about to burn your mouth. ... http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/07/27/caution-contents-may-be-hot/ Over the last few years, all of the major browsers have included support for a special set of 140 colors that are recognized by their color name within HTML or CSS code. This means that rather than having to remember that the color orange is specified with the hex code "#FFA500", ... http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/07/24/140-named-colors/