Striped Backgrounds
I found an interesting looking site on a web gallery that I sometimes check out, CSS Gallery. At first glance the thumbnail made me think it was hexday, which clearly caught my attention. Clicking through it’s a nice little application, you pick five colors and it will generate an image for download at the dimensions you want. Super simple idea, which many might say has limited appeal - but I suspect it’ll get a fair amount of traffic.
State of the Union
I found myself getting very backward looking tonight. So I started digging through some of the data on Hexday. Hexday was started on November 6th 2007, with 3 color picks.
#080808
I wonder how many people will pick #080808 today for their hexday pick, by way of a nod to the Olympics.
Cymbolism
This is a great idea, give words and allow users to select colors that they feel represent those colors. Show the results aggregated and the most often picked colors. The data being collected will be very interesting, looking for patterns and relationships. It’s a wonderfully simple site, easy to use and clearly [...]
Kylie Does Hexday
Kylie Minogue’s recent O2 concert had some very hexday’esque looking visuals to accompany her act.
Color API’s
After all the attention from ColorLovers this weekend, and a recent read of a Tim O’Reilly article, I found myself thinking about how I could participate in the “open web”. I’m already looking at opening an API (initially just GET) so that people can use the data from Hexday outside of it’s confines, but [...]