ColorHunter.com - Color Palettes from Flickr Photos

Need to pick a color scheme, but haven’t got a clue where to start? Whether you’r colour blind or just plain empty minded when it comes to colours, you can rely on ColorHunter to select and find color palettes for any occasion. ColorHunter actually pulls up color schemes from photographic images. What you see is a swatch list of colors lined up next to the image from which they are taken. It’s quite ingenious really, as it gives you real insight as to how the colors look when juxtaposed. The images from ColorHunter are pulled in from Flickr. You can search for different color palettes by using the search bar; additionally you can search by tag, hex color code or image url. If you have already have an image in mind, you can upload it and get a color palette based on the colors from your image. Log-in is optional; you don’t have to sign up unless you want to keep a list of your favorite palettes.

“Color Hunter is a place to find and make color palettes created from images."

This is a simple, yet clear and clever tool which is bound to help novice artists and designers in a way that color wheels never could. With ColorHunter, users actually get a real world snapshot of a color palette. They can better see how certain colors relate.

How is this funded? How often are new schemes created?