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Swatchos are a box of 129 cards to help you choose and work with colours. And because they are cards they're perfect for moving around to create colour schemes for your project – whatever the project might be.
I started thinking about Swatchos because I couldn't find a colour tool that I really loved. I thought there must be a more intuitive and enjoyable way to play around with colours, but I couldn't find one.
Choosing colours in software is fine but feels awkward and slow. I wanted to use my hands to play around with options. I also found colour charts and swatch books useful for choosing single colours but because you can't move the colours around it's difficult to create colour schemes. So that's when Swatchos became a thing.
Choose Colours And Make Colour Schemes – Whatever The Project
The cards can be used in so many different ways and I'm sure people will see uses in them that I didn't even imagine. Here are just a few ideas:
Choosing a group of colours for a logo
Choosing colours for a website project or app design
Teaching about colour theory
Planning colours for a room in a house
Planning colour choices for a painting
Choosing CMYK colours for print and knowing how they'll look
Craft projects
Communicating about colour with a client remotely (send them a pack of cards too)
Discussing colour with a client in a face-to-face meeting
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The Cards
There are 129 unique cards in a box of Swatchos. Each card has one colour on the front and six on the back. The front colour is the main colour and the reverse shows darker and lighter version of this colour.
The cards are spread equally around using CMYK as the base. Each of the front colours is 25% away from another. For example you may have a green of 50/0/100/0, but also a 75/0/100/0 green. The back of the card then has three
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