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Today is my day to find things to annoy me about Adobe, I guess.  I recently saw a demo of Adobe’s on-line color tool, kuler.adobe.com, and thought it was pretty cool.  Basically its a site where people can upload and share their color collections.  And it struck me that this wold be really useful for a project team to keep standard color sets from various projects.  I often find myself looking for scraps of paper for the HEX color values for a web site, or even worse digging through the CSS to find the values.  Kuler has some integration with Illustrator too.  And I consider myself pretty color-challenged, so I can use all the help I can get.

But as I was googling the site I found something similar, and a link to their charge that Kuler is a rip-off of their project.  So at least there is an alternative.  I can appreciate the Colourlovers annoyance at the Kuler site, but that’s life in the real world.  Its not that difficult an idea to come up with, and even easier to copy.  If the feel of the Colourlovers site and the community are strong, then they’ll keep their loyal users and continue to grow.  But if Kuler does them one better then the balance may shift their way.  Or Google will create something even better and blow them both away!

Color + Design Blog / For the Record: Adobe Kuler vs COLOURlovers by COLOURlovers

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