Adobe recently has published their first web application - Kuler. Apart from the fact that the name is kind of “Web-2.0″” - at least they didn’t call it kulr - it’s a fairly nifty app. What does it do for you? Color harmonization would be the technical term, but “oooh! Pretty!” comes fairly close as a description.
You pick your primary color, it generates a set of four matching colors. You can then, depending on the rule set, fiddle a little bit with the secondary colors, while it keeps them in a harmonious palette all the time. It doesn’t sound too exciting, but you should play with it for a while - it’s addictive, in a weird way.
It will ask you to install Flash9, though (If you don’t have it yet). And, at least on Safari, it asks you to close all browsers during the installation. That means the one that brought you to Kuler, too. Took me a while to realize that…
I’ve seen the site featured on the front page of del.icio.us but never visited it until now, and I must say that it’s a fun site to use. My only complaint being that you have to sign-in and edit a theme before you can actually see what the Hex values are for each color (aside from downloading the theme). It would be nice if the values were shown in a pop up window when you scroll your mouse over each one, yet the site is definitely cool… or should I say “kuul”.