This or That: Blue or Green Kaleidoscope?

If you had to choose, and I know it's tough, which kaleidoscope colors do you like best? Blue or Green? Vote in the comments!

Mimosa: Pantone's color of the year

A little late to the party here, but wanted to share Pantone's choice for Color of the Year for 2009.... Mimosa.

I've seen this color popping up everywhere lately, from wedding invites to clothing, in paint colors and blog designs. I'm quite smitten. Pantone describes the color as an 'engaging yellow... that expresses hope and reassurance'. It sure makes me feel warm & fuzzy when I see it. How about you? Have you added mimosa to your upcoming projects?

p.s. Pantone's fashion color report for Spring '09 can be found here... I like the dark citron, big surprise, huh :)

Fonts: Most Commonly Used

The nice people over at ishift put together a great list of 22 most commonly used fonts by professional designers. And, did I mention... most, if not all, fonts are free! woot!

Here's the quick roundup and screenshots of two of my faves:

- Delicious
- Gentium
- Tallys
- Lido STF
- Mg Open
- Cardo
- Day Roman
- Yanone Kaffeesatz
- Union
- Fontin Family
- Fertigo
- Droid
- M+ Outline
- Luxi
- Ambrosia
- Lacuna
- Liberation
- Advent Pro
- ATF Antique
- Mank Sans
- Diavlo
- Cicle

Check out ishift for more screenshots and links. What fonts would you add to the list?

Love me some colour

Thought I'd kick off this blog by spreading the word about one of my favorite design tools / toys -- ColourLovers!

For those that haven't stumbled across this gem yet, you're in for a treat. Colourlovers lets everyday people like you & me compile and post our favorite colors, palettes and patterns. You can search thousands of colors, shades and hues and then see how they match up in a complete palette. It's magic.

Even better, ColourLovers allows you to download these palletes in a variety of formats --

• ASE - can be used in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, CS2 and CS3
• PS - a Photoshop Swatches File
• AI - Adobe Illustrator file (opens a new IA doc with the palette in the swatches panel)
• CS - Color Scheme Studio palette
• HTML - downloads a HTML page with the colors specified as RGB and Hex values with an internal CSS stylesheet.
• ZIP - downloads a zip file with all of the above, except the Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) file

Endless of hours of fun, this site, and endless uses. What types of projects do you use ColourLovers for? Which are your favorite palettes? Share, please!

Credit: Above 'Itsy Bitsy' pallette submitted on ColourLovers by wingedvictory