Colors colors colors!

We've been thinking about colors lately. We like colors. A whole lot.

As everybody knows, colors are a major part of any wedding and one of the first things couples pin down. They are a huge facet of any small business branding and can really bring consistency and freshness to business materials. The colors present on an album cover can convince someone to buy your CD.

(In fact, that's how I discovered Josh Ritter — I'm still grateful to whoever designed the Animal Years album cover for convincing me to check out the CD, which is as sonically awesome as it is visually great. Good thing, because I get mad when bad albums have good covers that sneakily trick you into listening to them. False advertising. Inexcusable.) :)

To get back to the point, colors are hugely important in everything we do. I find myself going to the COLOURlovers site quite often for inspiration and color palettes. The site is a community of people who love colors (duh) and is full of hues, color combinations, and patterns that are easily searchable and easy to make. It's the kind of site one can easily spend hours ooohing and aaahing over.

The more I've thought about it, the more I want to share this site with our clients! Many people come to us and find themselves trying to describe a very specific color: "a sage-y olive fern green," "that color they use on the Target commercial" or "a mix between pumpkins and the Bengals." There's an easier way - I encourage you all to go to COLOURlovers and find your particular shade of blue, and then send it to us! Go to the Colors section, search by hue or keyword, and then send us the link to the color you love.

If you are feeling extraordinarily ambitious, you can go one step further and pick out or create a color palette, and then send it along. Users have already created thousands of great color palettes you can search through. Simply go to the Palettes section and start digging around. You'll find this tool SUPER useful for finding new colors to throw into your mix.

Have fun and stay safe. It's addictive. If you have dishes or laundry to do, you should maybe go do that now, before you get sucked in...