Color Scheme Inspiration – USA National Landmarks
Put away your tourism handbook, because today we’ll be taking a guided tour through the colors of United States landmarks.
Wondering what this post is all about? Every couple weeks or so, we scavenge Flickr for some wonderfully inspiring photography to build color schemes from. The results can be used to start graphic and web projects of all sizes. Inspiration comes in funny places sometimes.
Photos are all found via Flickr (follow image links for author info). Color schemes are available to download through COLOURlovers.
Palettes from American Landmarks
Monumental Color Schemes
You’ve just successfully completed a quick tour of the USA monument circuit, but did we miss a good one? If there’s a monument waiting to be turned into a palette, be sure to let us know in the comments.
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Discussion
October 8th, 2009 at 4:24 AM
Nice one, thanks. Planning on doing international landmarks?
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October 8th, 2009 at 7:42 AM
@Martin
If some international readers made recommendations, I would love to feature some worldwide landmarks.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:24 AM
I’m not an international reader (born in London, residing in the US) but I thought I’d make some recommendations.
Big Ben: http://bit.ly/spt3Y
Eiffel Tower: http://bit.ly/I6UhR
Taj Mahal: http://bit.ly/16BeHo
October 9th, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Beautiful! Nature shots are so inspiring.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Love the color palettes. Anyone got a good resource on how to take a color pallet and implement it as a basis for a website?
October 9th, 2009 at 6:19 PM
@Brian
Color Scheme Designer has an option to display colors in possible web layouts. It’s a good starting point.
October 10th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
good post.:)
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@ Zach – a doubt, when i added border for my flickr photos in my blog. the chrome browser works good with 3X3 images,but firfox browser shows 2X2 images with border.why it happen like this. so once i removed everything, and insert one more time, if i try to add border the 2X2 images are showing without border and lower text in the sideway(toally collapse). even though i put the same code. can u help me in this
October 12th, 2009 at 10:34 AM
@Zach Thanks. That will do nicely!
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