Here are 2 other methods of finding colors. 1
First one and my favourite – stealing! There's nothing wrong with stealing colors. 2
Unlike other creative work, colors can't really be owned by anyone. So designers borrow colors from each other 3
all the time. 4
This is basically sampling colors from other people's work, instead of the photography. 5
It's also more simpler approach to finding colors, than sampling colors from the photography as we 6
did. 7
It's more out of the box option, that you can start applying to your work right away. 8
There are a lot of websites that curate design work and inspiration. 9
I have dedicated a special lesson to this. Later we dive deeper in the topic of inspiration and its 10
importance in your workflow. 11
For now, let's look at one place to find color inspiration – dribbble.com. 12
You can find excellent inspiration in here. 13
Most of the work here isn't even for real projects. 14
It's designers show and tell. A lot of exploration ideas and practice by other designers. 15
Let's say we are working on a finance related website. 16
We will search by the finance keyword and get a lot of inspiration for our work. 17
When we find colors that we like, we can either sample the color in exactly the same way as we did with 18
photos. Just save the image and place it inside Figma and then use the Eyedropper Tool. Or use a separate 19
Eyedropper Tool, that can sample colors from anywhere on your screen. 20
If you're on Mac, then it already has an Eyedropper Tool. 21
It's inside utilities called Digital Color Meter. 22
If you're on P.C. you can use browser extensions. ColorZila for example is a pretty good chrome extension 23
for this. 24
The second way to find colors is through Color generator sites like Coolors.co. 25
You can either generate palettes from scratch, or you can paste 1 or 2 colors that you want to use, 26
and generate some other matches that will work with that color. 27
Here's a pro tip: AVOID RAW COLORS! Raw colors are those that have 100% saturation and 28
100% brightness. 29
This is a mistake many non-designers make, when they for example, design presentations for school, or work, 30
or Facebook covers and whatnot. 31
They often use raw colors like this. 32
We generally like colors that are present in the natural world and rarely you get such colors in nature. 33
Even the most extreme examples like Nemo here, don't have raw colors in them. 34
However, that doesn't mean you can never use them. 35
There might be times when there is like trends going on, right? 36
Or maybe you deliberately and intentionally want to use something like a very bright fluorescent green. 37
Not a problem. As always with design, if it's intentional 38
it's probably going to work and if it's not, it might suck.