We have begun playing around with Adobe’s web-hosted application called Kuler - which allows you to share, explore, and create color themes. We found it useful for generating color themes that can inspire projects that may be stuck in the mud or need a little creative kick in the pants.  It allows you to “experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community”. By the way, the Kuler community os active and large - boasting approximately 70,000 monthly uniques and receives several hundred palette uploads each day. Our favorite feature is the photo color palette generator where you  can upload one of your photos, and Kuler will automatically create  a color palette based on the colors found in your photo. It is definitely worth a look see - check out Adobe Kuler.

Wow! I can’t believe October is winding down and soon we will be into November and the end of year holidays. For me, this time of year is the busiest and I can sometime have the tendency to lose focus on my initial goals for the year (have you reached all the goals you set for yorself this year?). Anyway, one of my goals for Designer’s Mind is to build the most complete list of design resouces. 

I was recently inspired by Steven from VandelayDesign who has put together an excellent list of resources for web deigners. He includes image pickers, fonts, CSS layouts, dead link checkers, color pickers and many more - 77 resources to be exact. I hope to build on Steven’s list over the next 30 - 60 days. I am hoping that you will help and contribute to our list.

Also, you may want to peak at Jason Bartholme’s blog - a great blog for resources, including a list of 70+ JavaScript Resources for Every Web Developer

I look forward to your comments…

I stumbled across this tool the other day. TypeTester is a tool that enables you to test and compare different fonts on screen. Using the provided Lipsum text or your own block of text, you can create three different styles and view them on the same page for a quick comparison. This nifty tool let’s you control many aspects of your text, but a few things I’d like to see implemented would have to be:

• Support for image backgrounds
• A more obvious “Get the CSS” link (there is one under the Tools tab, which I find to be rather inconvenient)
• An input box for custom CSS

Overall a great tool, make sure to bookmark this one!