∃xistential Type » color http://existentialtype.net For People Who Like Type and Types Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:00:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Mining Yahoo Images for color schemes http://existentialtype.net/2009/08/24/mining-yahoo-images-for-color-schemes/ http://existentialtype.net/2009/08/24/mining-yahoo-images-for-color-schemes/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:50:38 +0000 washburn http://existentialtype.net/?p=336 I meant to post about this a while ago, but while reading Bruce Sterlings's Beyond the Beyond, I learned about this clever tool for generating color schemes. Given your keywords it searches for the top five images on Yahoo! Image Search and chooses the six most prominent colors from each.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given "existential type" it just returns different shades of gray – ones even less interesting than Bruce got for "cyberpunk".

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