Colourlovers

COLOURlovers
Web address COLOURlovers.com
Commercial? No
Type of site
 social network service, Blog
Registration Optional
Available in English
Owner CHROMAom, Inc.
Created by Darius A. Monsef IV
Launched December 2004
Alexa rank
 positive decrease 4,077 (April 2014)[1]
Current status Active

Colourlovers (styled COLOURlovers) is a social network service, blog, and international creative community that focuses on color inspiration and color trends for both personal and professional creative projects.

Overview

The colors, palettes, patterns and shapes on Colourlovers are created by a community of members using tools on the website. As of November 2014, over 4.4 millions of its members have created more than 7.7 million colors, 3.56 million palettes, 4.5 million patterns and 434,143 pattern templates.[2] There are about one million visitors each month.[3]

Colourlovers was founded in December 2004 by Darius A. Monsef IV,[4] and is based in Portland, Oregon.

In April 2011, Colourlovers raised $1 million in angel funding.[5] A book was published in 2011 containing about three thousand choice patterns from the website.[6]

Color of the year

Each year since 2010, in the members of Colourlovers have voted in February of each year for their favorite colour created by themselves during the previous year, which is designated as the "Colour Lovers Colour of the Year". For example, in January 2010, all the colours created in the previous year between February 2009 and January 2010 were voted on to determine which one was the favorite colour of 2010.

The results of each year's vote are shown below. So far, there seems to be a predeliction by the members in favor of reddish colors.

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Sunny Orange (Colour Lovers Colour of the Year 2010)[7] (#FC5110)

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Go Bunny Go (Colour Lovers Colour of the Year 2011)[8] (#C2E20D)

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Shock Me, Yesss!! (Colour Lovers Colour of the Year 2012)[9] (#FF0026)

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New Beginning (Colour Lovers Colour of the Year 2013)[10] (#FC0F3E)

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Middle-earth (Colour Lovers Colour of the Year 2014)[11] (#8DBF2A)



References

  1. ↑ "Colourlovers.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ "COLOURlovers.com home page". Retrieved 2014-11-19.
  3. ↑ COLOURlovers.com Press Release
  4. ↑ Woodward, Steve (April 24, 2008). "ColourLovers.com brings fame to Lake Oswego man". The Oregonian. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  5. ↑ "COLOURlovers Raises $1 Million To Make Everyone An Artist". 3 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
  6. ↑ Darius A. Monsef IV (July 12, 2011). Color Inspirations: More than 3,000 Innovative Palettes from the Colourlovers.Com Community. Portland, Oregon. ISBN 978-1-60061-945-8. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
  7. ↑ Colour Lovers (Colour Sunny Orange was formulated on 16 December 2009):
  8. ↑ Colour Lovers (Colour Go Bunny Go was formulated on 10 January 2011):
  9. ↑ Colour Lovers (Colour Shock Me, Yess!! was formulated on 7 January 2012):
  10. ↑ Colour Lovers (Colour New Beginning was formulated on 10 January 2013):
  11. ↑ Colour Lovers (Colour Middle-earth was formulated on 1 January 2014):

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