Color Scheme Inspiration – Rainy Day in the City
This round of color inspiration is braving bad weather and taking to the streets of cities around the world. Here are some palettes that won’t run when wet.
Photos are all found via Flickr (follow image links for author info). Color schemes are available to download through COLOURlovers.
Palettes from Urban Rain
Color Your Own City
Once again, if you are inspired to make your own rainy cityscape, we’d love to see you share it with our Colourlovers group for Build Internet! readers. Go ahead and inspire us!
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May 22nd, 2009 at 2:34 AM
Jim Beam Strikes is combination I wouldn’t have thought about myself, but it turns out great!
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May 22nd, 2009 at 2:37 PM
I really like the Taxis and Hats one. Thanks for sharing.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Rain rain!! a big fan of rain. Great list Zach
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May 22nd, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Very nice list. I guess you’d want to pick a nice picture to start your inspiration to get a nice color pallete (scheme)
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:40 PM
taxi and hats is a great one. thanks!
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May 24th, 2009 at 12:41 AM
I’ve tried to do the same thing, but I’ve not been able to find the essence of the scene. The Rainy Union Square is great, but the London Rain needs more darker colours.
I tried distilling winter cliffs during sunset, but this is what I got: http://icosidodecahedron.com/other/colortest.png
A good enough image, but with repeating colours and lots of darks. I ended up tweaking the brightness of everything by hand to match what I expected in a website (more contrast, fewer dark colours), but I feel that much of the original feel of the image has been lost.
Any tips?
May 24th, 2009 at 5:55 AM
I love London rain. very soft and calm. nice one
June 10th, 2009 at 4:12 AM
Very interesting. I never seen this type of blog post. Excellent idea. I actually found your site by a referral from the man himself, Collis Taeed on one of his interviews.
Great job with the website and keep up the good work!
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