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January 15, 2007
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Is your web site ready for spring? |
New York fashion designers are flourishing in a season of new beginnings, using surprising neutrals with innovative splashes of corals, yellows and purples to create a spring in bloom.
Tarragon is the freshly cut stem to the blossoming shades of sweet Strawberry Ice, warm Golden Apricot and violet-infused Hollyhock.
Cafe Creme is the rich, creamy contrast to the serenity of calming Sky Blue or the deliciousness of refreshing Grapemist.
The yellow glow of gleaming Green Sheen and the blushing beauty of diaphanous Silver Peony reflect the infusion of life brought by spring.
Source :
PANTONE Fashion Color Report Spring 2007
Read the full PANTONE Color Report at:  PANTONEspring07.pdf |
| |  | | PANTONE 12-1206 Silver Peony | I used the Photoshop color picker to do the conversions (sRGB color space) to find HTML values for the colors mentioned in this report.
| | #F3DDD0 | | | #A8C786 | | | #ABB6B1 | | | #EABC661 | | | #862D7E | | | #E3DC6A | | | #6E9FD1 | | | #C49982 | | | #F18B92 | | | #87C2DB |
| |  | PANTONE 15-0326 Tarragon |  | PANTONE 16-3801 Opal Gray |  | PANTONE 14-1041 Golden Apricot |  | PANTONE 19-2924 Hollyhock |  | PANTONE 13-0648 Green Sheen |  | PANTONE 16-3929 Grapemist |  | PANTONE 16-1220 Cafe Creme |  | PANTONE 16-1720 Strawberry Ice |  | PANTONE 14-4318 Sky Blue | | |
As I mentioned already - I used PhotoShop to convert PANTONE colors to HTML values.
Also I have Color Cop sitting in the corner of my screen whatever I do.
It is a very small application, and easy to use. You just click and drag the eyedropper anywhere on the screen to select a color.
My favorite option there is a Complimentary color palette (42 colors).
I pick a color, and the Color Cop helps me to find the color I want to add to my palette (Complement colors are generated on the fly) .
| But!!! If you have a site that targets designers, publishers, or other "color" professionals, or if your are showing artwork for print - it would be better to double adjust these values using standard tools. If you are in this type of industry - I am sure you know what to do.
But just in case:
http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx - find a Pantone color
Colorist - Version 2.0 features the latest sRGB, Adobe RGB (1998) and HTML values for the coated, uncoated and matte libraries.
You can specify PANTONE Colors within:
Adobe Photoshop Elements Microsoft FrontPage and PowerPoint version Office v. X Apple KeyNote Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash&153; and Fireworks Plus, any application that accesses the Windows System Color Picker or Mac OS X color picker.
And, as you know of course, it's the coated sRGB color space that you'll want to use for reference on the web. |
| Let's stay with standard monitor color space for the World Wide Web (This is known as sRGB) and try to "intuitively" illustrate these new spring fashion colors by FeaturePics.com images. | | You can click on an Image to enlarge it. |
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