{"id":796,"date":"2013-03-11T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/\/?p=796"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:37:54","slug":"the-technology-and-the-design-on-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2013\/03\/11\/the-technology-and-the-design-on-color\/","title":{"rendered":"The Technology and the Design: On Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Adaptative_8bits_palette.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"English: A full adaptative indexed palette\" alt=\"English: A full adaptative indexed palette\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Adaptative_8bits_palette.png?resize=256%2C80&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"256\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">English: A full adaptative indexed palette (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this episode, I decided to focus on color as topic. I explain how you can use a dollar bill in order to create a palette that subtly reminds the viewer of prosperity and wealth, how you can use photos as a source of palette, and sites that you can use to see lots of palettes that people are sharing to convey emotion and message without one lick of text.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size:1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Palette Play (courcydesign.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stacymilesdesigner.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/09\/quintessential-color-how-it-takes-shape-in-spring-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quintessential Color ,&#8221;How it takes shape in Spring 2013\u2033.<\/a> (stacymilesdesigner.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/irthoughts.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/21\/the-color-miner-a-tool-for-mining-colors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Color Miner &#8211; A Tool for Mining Colors<\/a> (irthoughts.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, I decided to focus on color as topic. I explain how you can use a dollar bill in order to create a palette that subtly reminds the viewer of prosperity and wealth, how you can use photos as a source of palette, and sites that you can use to see lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,29,32,5],"tags":[195,365],"class_list":{"0":"post-796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-experience","8":"category-research-interests","9":"category-teaching-experience","10":"category-technology","11":"tag-color","12":"tag-graphics","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Adaptative_8bits_palette.png?fit=256%2C80&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-cQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5853,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/01\/08\/8-of-365-is-a-new-header-for-365-sketches\/","url_meta":{"origin":796,"position":0},"title":"8 of 365 is a new header for 365 Sketches","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-01-08","format":false,"excerpt":"The revised 365 sketches logo","rel":"","context":"In &quot;brand&quot;","block_context":{"text":"brand","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/consulting\/brand\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-11-20-06-56-400x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4683,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2013\/08\/22\/illustration-leaf\/","url_meta":{"origin":796,"position":1},"title":"Illustration of a leaf by John LeMasney via lemasney.com","author":"lemsy","date":"2013-08-22","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw a beautiful illustration on Pinterest that made use of clipping, and decided to play with the idea for myself. 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