The Color Chords app is available on the iPhone App Store. Feel free to email me with any comments or suggestions you might have.
Several people have expressed interest in being able to select a color, either from an image or through inputting RGB values, and using Color Chords to find complementary colors. Would this be of use to you? How might you envisage working with it?
Thanks!
Hi Giancarlo,
ReplyDeleteFirst, I would like to thank you and Elise for creating Color Chords. It is a well designed application, very easy to use in the iPhone.
To answer your question, for me, I would find it extremely useful to be able to enter an RGB/HSB value directly for the main color of a theme. The reason is very simple but would save me some additional steps. Many times I need to match an exact color and then find the harmonious colors to use as accents. Currently I'm having to use the color wheel spinner to get a color by sight, close enough, get the harmonious colors then calculate the color delta between the main color selected in the color wheel and the main color I have then apply the delta to the harmonious colors to get the corresponding values. It would be nice if the tool allowed me to enter the RGB/HSB color and provide the correct harmonious values saving me the additional steps to calculate the color delta.
Along those lines, I would also like to see an option to change the Chroma/Saturation on the color wheel to be able to get the exact values for darker or lighter color schemes. Sometimes I need deep rich colors and sometimes I need subdue pastels of the same color scheme. Currently I'm getting the color schemes from your tool and then calculating the delta for one color to be either dark or light and then applying the delta to the other colors to get matching values for the chroma/saturation. I'm thinking this may not be an issue if we can enter the RGB values directly as we then can make them lighter or darker and the tool will calculate the correct harmonious colors for that dark or light color that matches the chroma/saturation.
And lastly, I would like to see native support on the iPad and a way to exchange the saved color schemes between the iPad and the iPhone. Perhaps via Dropbox or iCloud.
Your tool rocks and if those enhancements I mentioned are made I think you will have an outstanding tool that will attract more artist and professionals like myself that deal with color on fault basis. Again, thank you for putting out on the apple store. It has become one of my main tools in my bag of tricks. I love the fact that it has more chords than any other tool out there and that it has a clean design. Not a lot of clutter on the interface. A very well design tool.
Cheers.