Grab Yourself Some Colors & Patterns
I’ve mentioned how important a color scheme can be in an application and some places where you can get some inspiration, but every one in a while you may need a pattern. One site I’ve started frequenting for inspiration and ideas for Degrafa samples is COLOURlovers. They have hundreds of thousands of community generated colors, color palettes and contributed patterns as well. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had people ask me, “Where can I get some sweet repeating patterns?”
Not only is COLOURlovers a great site, but they just launched a public API you can leverage in your own applications. I just recently came across a sweet little AIR app, created by Levi McCallum of Futon Media, that leverages that API to bring some color and pattern goodness to your desktop.
Check out the COLOURlovers site or the COLOURlovers AIR app.