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Tools for the selection of colour palettes

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ABSTRACT

We survey tools for colour selection, reviewing their shortcomings and strengths, and suggest a way of integrating their best features into a single tool.

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    CHINZ '02: Proceedings of the SIGCHI-NZ Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction
    July 2002
    111 pages
    ISBN:0473085003
    DOI:10.1145/2181216

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