Here are examples of websites and apps that let Color make the decisions for you.
Choosing by Color
The colors we use define us, from our walls and clothes to our cars and pets. How do we decide what colors things should be? Hans Hofmann said, “The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.” What if we used color to help us make our decisions? Here are examples of websites and apps that let Color make the decisions for you.
Etsy.com
Etsy sells crafts from independent artists around the world and they’ve developed a color system that lets you pick out a color, then see what craft is available in that color.
Id©e Labs
Perhaps you’d like to pick your images by color? The Multicolr Search Lab is a part of Id©e Labs’s technology playground for visual search. With the Multicolr Search Lab, you can browse through 10 million images on Flickr and choose up to 10 colors from a palette of 120 different shades.
ben Color Capture iPhone app
And what if you see a color you like and want to start there? Benjamin Moore has the app that can do that. The ben Color Capture app for iPhone lets you capture any color that catches your eye and instantly select its match from Benjamin Moore's thousands of paint colors. Just snap a picture of your color inspiration, tap on the image, and instantly reveal the closest paint color. Download your free ben Color Capture app at the iTunes App Store.
Choose Your Color, Change Your Life
What do your color choices say about your personality? Can color lead you to your next career choice? Take the Dewey Color tests and see how your color selections may color your career choices. This non-language test gets beyond your preconceived career notions to recommend additional occupations.
Color your trip abroad
Journey to the center of the color universe at the Pantone Hotel, a new boutique property in Brussels that invites you to experience the Belgian capital "through a lens of color and a spectrum of comforts." Designers Michel Penneman and Oliver Hannaert selected a distinctive palette for each of the hotel's seven floors (which range from "daring and fiery" reds to "captivating, esteemed, silky" shades of violet) and upped the contrast with clean white walls and the saturated outsized photographs of Victor Levy. Pantone consultants are on call to assist with any color crises. Our favorite touch? A rooftop bar serving color-matched cocktails. Choose from Pink Champagne (Pantone 12-1107), Lemon Drop (12-0736), or Daiquiri Green (12-0435).
