Colorate is a utility for creation of harmonized color palettes and color schemes, aimed from hobbyist to professional designers.


Colorate fully automatizes the palette generation from a particular color swatch, selected from the standard Color Panel, dragged from other application or obtained from an image through the integrated Image Analyze feature.


Once the palette has been generated, it is possible to add the new palette to the Library. Colorate can save and open as many Libraries as needed.


Colorate also lets save the selected palettes as standard “.clr” system palette files. This feature allows use any of the generated palettes from hundreds of application that uses the Mac OS X standard Color Panel for color selection.


 

What is Colorate?



Random Color Palette

  1. •Generate a new random palette. If you are seeking for an color scheme idea, this is the place to start with.

 


Blend Color Palette

  1. •Generate a new blend palette from the primary and last colors. You also can choose to create a custom blended color palette from two given colors.

 


Gradient Color Palette

  1. •Generate a new gradient palette from the primary selected color. This is a simple way for generating monochromatic color palettes.

 


Custom palette

  1. •Generate a custom palette defining the color for every sample. This feature allows you to create your own color palette with samples that aren’t automatically computed using theory color rules, as Colorate does by default.

 


Save color palette

  1. •Save a “.clr” file from the selected palette that you can use from any Cocoa application.

 

Technical info:

  1. Colorate is a full Cocoa, Binary Universal, application compatible with Mac OS 10.4 and later.


Design and Engineering:

  1. Javier Rodríguez

  2. francisco_javier1 [at] mac [dot] com


  4. Mosquito SW

  5. www.mosquitosw.com

  6. www.colorate.eu


Colorate Friends:


I want to thank all of you, especially:


Odivi, from France

Jörg Pressel, from Germany (www.coverbuddy.com)

Jonas Rabbe, from Denmark (http://jonas.rabbe.com)

Luis Guillermo Sobalvarro, from Colombia

Abzu, from Hungary (www.machonosit.hu)

© 2007 Mosquito SWhttp://www.mosquitosw.comhttp://www.mosquitosw.comshapeimage_2_link_0

Palette color patches


  2. Do you think that Colorate doesn’t offer enough color samples? The twelve color patches of the color scheme contains the Complementary, Split Complementary, Triadic and Analogous, color palette values. You can obtain variations over the palette using the Saturation and Brightness controls. You can obtain the Monochromatic color palette for the main color using the Gradate Palette option.

Colorate; Since 2007, September 1st



Analyze image

  1. •Use this feature to find the predominant color from the image (not pixel color counting), and build a new palette around it. Great for building a color palette around your company logo, main image on your design, etc.

 

Simple & efficient tool for color massaging

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Who is using Colorate already?


Artists • Photographers • Layout Designers • Web Designers • Graphic Designers • Publishers • Magazines • Press Agencies • Communications Agencies • Computer manufacturers • Hardware manufacturers • Software developers • Scientists Organizations • Universities • Home users

Why to use Colorate?

Color is everywhere, and not only as a visual reference but also as an emotional meaning where the pigments, hues and shades used in a color scheme are responsibles of the perception for a given product, design, painting or even the clothes that anyone uses daily.


The selection of a set of colors is usually done by intuition, in the best of the cases, but that approach doesn't offer the best results. For example, sometimes there is no relation between some of them, creating a visual discrepancy in the final design. In other cases, it's not easy to know which saturation and value numbers to use for a given tone value, as for the other samples used in the color scheme.


Based on color theory, Colorate automatizes all the process of the color scheme creation, and thanks to their integration with the standard Mac OS X color panel it is possible to know the samples values as RGB, CMYK or HSV data for their use in Web design (embedded in CSS files), printed design, painting, composition, photography and other creative fields.


It is possible use Colorate in several ways for palette / color scheme generation:


  1. ViñetaDropping a color from any application over any of the twelve color samples on the Colorate window.

  2. ViñetaChoosing a base color from any of the twelve color samples on the Colorate window.

  3. ViñetaDropping an image from any application (or from the Mac OS X Finder) over the Image container on the main Colorate Window. (You can see some examples of this process in the blog section of the website, as the ©Coca-Cola color palette, ©Fender Stratocaster Sunburst color palette and the ©Kellogg’s Special K color palette.)


Using Colorate you will be able to use well suited, matching colors combinations.


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