Look up a colour scheme by hex value or image in Adobe Kuler

I was in a bind today when I couldn’t remember the URL of a colour scheme I’d picked out from Adobe Kuler - kuler.adobe.com.

Kuler is an Adobe design community with a directory and search engine for picking appealing colour schemes. It has a complex set of tools which let you find, create, classify and store colour schemes for your own use and for the use of others.

Fortunately, Kuler has some Kule features which can help you if you have a screenshot of your colour scheme, you can either:

- Get the colour hex value using Photoshop and find matching schemes using the Kuler search field, e.g. ‘ff9050′

- If you don’t have access to Photoshop, you can use the Kuler image matching form in Kuler http://kuler.adobe.com/#create/fromanimage to find the hex values (you’ll need to move the markers around). You can then use this, or use the hex values to search for the original colour scheme.

I hope this saves someone some time.