The most excellent Tumblr of the Sunlight Foundation
Graphic project, the Choctone, chocolate tone of Pantone colour chart.
C for chocolate, N for nuts, H for Honney, G for Grape
Production: Ramses Post-production Aurélio
Searching for Peace in Old Age by Hyperakt
Pantone Pairings, Food & Condiments as Color Swatches
For his “Pantone Pairings” series on Instagram, Minneapolis-based David Schwen has combined foods and condiments that typically go together to look like Pantone swatches.
Beertone, A Color-Matching System That Uses Beer Color
Screw you, Pantone… There’s a new color-matching system on the block. Assuming that you only need the warm amber and golden hues of beer, Beertone is here to help. The formula guide includes 202 beers, their vital info, and color.
Table of Physiological Colors Both Mixt and Simple by Richard Waller, 1686 – a predecessor to Goethe’s famous color wheel from Theory of Colours. Waller’s table provided a cross-reference for colors one might find in nature. If a shade didn’t match exactly, he proposed, it was a simple matter of locating where on the table’s color-continuum that shade might fall.
Vogue Covers Covered by Arthur Buxton
British artist Arthur Buxton set out to chart the color trends used on Vogue magazine covers through the years from various editions around the world in his series Vogue Covers Covered.
The website Cymbolism wants your input to help establish what colors people associate with words. You’ll be given a word, and you select the color that you most associate it with, from a rather limited selection of colors. Some words are hard to color, like “Brooklyn.”
Representing time as a hexadecimal value
colors (by Seiichi Hishikawa)
Color of the Year 2010
Colors of the Social World
Visualization of how different cultures associate colors with feels etc by InformationisBeautiful.net. Click on the picture for the original.
