Links: color

My friend Joe just stopped by and we were chatting about data painting and he mentioned temperature blankets. I'd never heard of these before but the premise is simple and the results lovely: Crochet a blanket using yarn colors based on temperatures, one (or two rows) per day.

The Instagram account of this florist and ceramic studio in Australia is filled with color and joy and I wished I lived in Sydney to order bouquets. Their website is also lovely. / thanks Laura!

Peter Donahue applies color theory to crayons in this TikTok video. See also: his Instagram video that adjusts colors to perceptual differences. Good good good. / with a hat tip to Wendy for the link!

Esoteric Color Palette Generator that “harnesses mystical witchcraft” by David Aerne. Scroll down for options and the extra nice color naming. / via Dan Burzo

They're brighter than you think (yellow?! orange!). I chuckled at the new to me term "The German Rainbow"

Saw these prints scroll by and fell down a colorful rabbit hole. Learned a few things more about Kent in these additional footnotes, including insight behind the circus series.

Colorful visual interpretations of Some Rules for Students and Teachers / via Doug Wilson

An open-source emoji font in multiple weights (and a single color, even the flags). Jennifer Daniel has the deets and download link.

I'm working on a blogroll tag and porting folks over from RSS. First up is Seth. He blogs about running, the music business, metal, promoting yourself (or band) and bright colors.

Woke up reflecting on something that was related to the color orange, did a music search and this song came up and I dig it. Lovely randomness.

Starting the week looking at the lovely blasts of color that Craig Redman & Karl Maier bring to the world. / via The Fox is Black

There's not too much to the story (it's nature!), but dang Rivian has the best color line-up of any vehicle manufacturer.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (director of Amélie!) has a new sci-fi movie coming out in February on Netflix. It looks colorful and fun. 

The artist's Instagram bio sums it up: "drawing in the air." Beautiful flow and color and form. / via Dense Discovery

I loved watching these pieces come together bit by bit on Instagram without knowing exactly what Aegir Hallmundur was up to. Turns out it was a colorful and beautiful carousel!

10 minutes of lovely autumn colors / via Twisted Sifter

Assembled between 1886 and 1942, a collection of watercolor fruits and plants made by 21 artists. (This book looks beautiful.)

Jaro Gielens collection of 900+ electronic games that are searchable by color, brand and then some. Wowsers! / via Swiss-Miss

Input emoji and a color and amazing things happen! / via Jennifer Daniels

Input emoji and a color and amazing things happen! / via Jennifer Daniels

24 colors representing people of the world

Gloriously dense and colorful photos / via Present & Correct

Since 2010 Colossal has been sharing work of visual artists around the world. Colorful, diverse and always inspiring.

Click through the link at the end and play with it yourself! Fun. / via Swiss-Miss

There’s a new Bronco on the horizon, but I doubt they’ll have this many colors to choose from

American Museum of Natural History (NYC) / adding to list if I get back there.

Plays Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Advance games? Intrigued.

I don't exactly know how this will shake out, but the core mission of what Pattern is setting out to do and how they're going about it looks and sounds WONDERFUL. Color me curious. (Also? Super fun organic feelings from their site)

All the colors. / via Kottke

Swipe to see the final color mix! So fun / via Thor

A journey from Cambodia to Vietnam illustrated by Christoph Niemann. Lovely

Easiest to navigate with keyboard's right arrow. Pretty color palettes. This is just day 10! Looking forward to the rest.

in Color / via Coudal

Super colorful

A wonderful way to explore color directions. Click around! / via DJ

This would make me want to play Backgammon more.

I love how he collects images specifically for palette and extrapolates from there and goes deeper into color theory.

Animated light source for photography and video. (Adding to mental wishlist to try)

I agree with Coudal Partners that this is nice. I need to limit myself to one color more.

I still want to visit Color Factory, a lot

This company makes videos for the internet and make me want to spend all day making colorful paper models. Love their inspiring work.

A colorful music video / via Yewknee

I want to go to San Francisco and see this when it opens...

Superpretty. French fashion brand Pigalle recently teamed up with creative agency Ill Studio and Nike to create this unique basketball court in Paris' 9th arrondissement.

Real words as HEX colors

His mother knit the sweaters.

Color scheme generator - Fun for when you need a different automated perspective

I read the about page and I'm still not totally sure what this is actually about, but choose some color sets and see a set of images conform. Beautiful combinations.

A bit more detail and complexity than previous Harper coloring books

Great way to peruse album art / via Yewknee

These wireless mice are super fun

Generate and refine palettes of optimally distinct colors / via Philip

This New Year, I wish you more blank slates. May you have more blank white pages sitting in front you with your favorite pen nearby and at the ready. May you have blank screens in your code editor with your absolutely favorite color syntax highlighting. May your garage work table be empty save for a single large piece of reclaimed redwood and a saw.

Really dig these works by 1010

Lighten and Darken hexidecimal colors / via AIGA Cincinnati

Dig this identity by Hobo and Sailor. It's the color palette and context pieces that take it there.

A blog featuring stills from films and their corresponding color palettes. A tool to promote learning and inspiration. Pretty / via Yewknee

So. Colorful. / via Yewknee