Artists work with real paint by mixing groups of colors on a palette, making for natural blending and color combinations. That's a far cry from Photoshop-type color pickers, which let you grab ...

Borne out of what Lu describes as frustration with existing color-picking tools, their web app Viz Palette, uncovered recently by Flowing Data, lets you test your color palette for legibility in ...

A brief history of finding your color palette. The idea of taking your skin tone, hair color and eye color into consideration when picking clothing and makeup isn’t new at all.

Basically, it selects representative colors using quantization, shuffles them randomly, and runs them through a classifier, "the ultimate judge of a 'good looking' color palette," Qiao writes.