Common Nature

Do you use the summary info that iPalette provides as an input to another process?

For a number of processes; color happens to be a lifelong Special Interest™ of mine—-from occult tables of correspondences to my own synaesthetic associations to Johannes Itten’s ruminations on the character of color to 80’s seasonal color typing—-and I enjoy deducing and perusing color schemes for their own sake. (I didn’t do a palette for the iguana because my phone camera didn’t capture the full vibrance of his color, even after applying a saturation filter, nor the complexity of his patterning at the fairly low resolution I achieved. Note furthermore that in the blazing overhead tropical midday sunlight, I can barely see what I’m doing.)

One thing you can use colorpicking for is personal style choices, by running a picture of yourself through the process to determine what colors you’re made of, and therefore why one brown or navy or pink looks borrowed and another mysteriously makes sense of your hair and eyes and skin tone. (I don’t let my likeness or government name anywhere near my blogging platforms, but I was surprised to discover the level of gray and green in not only my hair and eyes but my skin.)

Using a palette of muted grays and greens would further a relaxing context for your palm wine coolers, in shaded rather than air-conditioned cool; if you wanted to present them as a vivacious party beverage, you’d probably want to crank up the saturation to lime and chartreuse, and throw in some hibiscus red and Horny Iguana Orange.

(So why didn’t I do a palette for the iguana? Because my phone camera didn’t capture the full vibrance of his color, even after applying a saturation filter, nor the complexity of his patterning at the fairly low resolution I achieved. Note furthermore that in the blazing overhead tropical midday sunlight, I can barely see what the expletive deleted I’m doing.)