Quite a monochromic inspiration

No, I don't think using one color in a space is boring. Look at these. Below my absolute favs.

Do you know the colors of Amsterdam?

You can buy these, and others, at The Colors Of store (23,49 euro each).

Love Symbol #2

Prince gets his own Pantone color: Love Symbol #2. Announced by The Prince Estate & the Pantone Color Institute.

Pinkest Pink

How many times does he say Pink?! But i like! 'Inventing colors'.

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How do people perceive the colors you're wearing?

In my case: black, grey, red, purple ... Power & Passion! I like!

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Marsala

Pantone told us the color of 2015: Marsala.

Don't know about this one. It doesn't make me happy. Clay, sirup, dark, musty, autumn, dark, sixties, middle ages, slum.

Color vs Time

What color is it? James E Murphy translates the time in hex color values. Please translate this one for mobile or watch!

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Color Thesaurus

An infographic / chart with the different names of colors by Ingrid Sundberg.

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MY Kind Of Bathtub

Pop Limited Edition Accademia Bathtub is my kind of bathtub. Hand-painted! OMG that's a lot of work. But worth it.

Colorized Historical Photos

This is a mind-fuck. At least for me. Because of the color difficult to put in the right time frame.

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And The Color Of The Year Is ...

... PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid. Says Pantone.

Pantone Food

David Schwen creates Pantone chips out of real food, the Pantone pairings. It seems natural.

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RGB

RGB by Dan McHale. In this animated short he's playing with the additive color model. That is, he's looking at how colored light mixes.

RGB from Dan McHale on Vimeo.

Explaining Color To Blind People

That's indeed almost impossible. Explaining color to blind people, or explaining Radiohead to deaf people. I'm still wondering, if I have to pick one, be deaf or be blind, I still don't know.

How Color Vision Works (1938)

Poor sea turtle.

A partly black/white animation on how color vision works, produced by the Handy (Jam) Organization in 1938.

Pantone Beachwear

Add some color to your beachwear this summer.

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Pimkie Color Forecast

Pimkie Color Forecast shows you in real time what colors people are wearing in the fashion capitals - Paris & Milan & Antwerp.

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Pantone Easter Eggs

Nice! Can't they breed chickens who deliver these eggs the whole year?!

Jessica Jones of How About Orange created Pantone Easter eggs by partially color-dyeing hardboiled eggs, matching them to her Pantone chip book and then adding the corresponding Pantone number to each egg using ink jet temporary tattoo paper.

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Container Color Systems Poster

You can put these on your wall any time.

Shipping container posters by Antrepo.

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Film Colorization

Is it always okay to put color in a black/white film? Judge for yourself.

Comparison of original 1931 b&w cartoon and the 1995 Korean re-drawn colorized version.