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ColorMunki - no monkey business!

Written by Lissette Arias on April 11, 2008 11:44 am EST

The ColorMunki^TM for designers is here!

It’s a nifty little widget, a hand-held gadget that reads color from anywhere. With this little gadget, you can capture any color from any object “on your screen, your desk, your co-workers breakfast, the family pet… anywhere you find inspiration.”

Then you incorporate these colors into your computer where you can build color palettes and directly import them into your favorite design tools; it’s compatible with Adobe® Photoshop®, Illustrator®, InDesign® and QuarkXPress®!

What’s the cost of the ColorMunki Design? $499 US. With this you get the White ColorMunki spectrophotometer, ColorMunki Palettes Creation and Profiling software, ColorMunki protection bag/monitor holder, Quick Start Guide and USB power cord.

I wish I could rate this first hand but the sneaky little munki is not available yet. You can order it but you won’t get charged until it is ready to be shipped early April which is now, isn’t? So why am I still getting that message in the order process? In any case, I am curious to see where this goes. I thought about it and can recall one similar-type concept, the one at your hardware store, where you take a little snippet of anything with color and they will match it and make you a fresh can of paint of that particular color.

I do wonder though, what are the limitations? I mean, is it waterproof or sticky-proof even? Must you hold it against the object or can you place it an inch away and still capture the color? How many colors can you capture in one sitting? How many colors does the memory hold? I also wonder if this is the way to capture color the way a machine reads it rather than what our human eyes perceive. Things that make you go hmm.

I’m positive you can find creative use for such a cute witty munki in your design department. Who wouldn’t? I can see me getting a little carried away tough, ColorMunki, a banana split and me… I can only longingly begin to imagine the yummy names I’d dream up for my color palettes!

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