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I love working with color, whether it is on the computer or off.  Color inspires me and fills me with the urge to do something, make something.  Check out the beauty of these strings of inspiring colors you can find at the ColorSchemer web site submitted in the Scheme Gallery.

I just like to look at them, but there is a ColorSchemer Studio you can purchase or download to try.  Schemes like the ones above can be made and shared and added to your ColorSchemer. 

There is also a fabulous little time saver, a free color picker application, called ColorPix or Galleria for the Mac, which allows you to grab the color values from the pixels on your monitor screen.  When you've picked the color you're after, just click on the color value which is automatically placed on your clipboard, no laborious back and forth copying and pasting.  It has a built-in magnifying glass so that you can get the exact color you want.  It is especially nice that there is nothing to install.  You just download the program and use it.  This little application would be especially helpful for picking and coordinating colors for your web pages.

The ColorSchemer blog is interesting to browse through as well.  You'll find 140 Named Colors, a handy reference list for browser-supported named colors.  Mostly it's jAlso, a Firefox plugin that adds Color Schemer Gallery to your available search engines.  This allows you to search for a particular color from the gallery.