February 28, 2008

New AIR-powered Adobe kuler desktop

The crew behind Adobe’s kuler color harmony RIA has released a new version of the desktop color feed browser (screenshot).  You can check it out by installing Adobe AIR, then downloading the app.  New features include:

• Browse color themes from the kuler website while offline (up to 100 themes cached per feed)
• Drag and drop themes onto your own desktop as transparent "tear offs," which can be scaled and viewed over any application
• Access themes from Mykuler (must be signed in)
• Download themes as ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) files directly from the kuler desktop (must be signed in)
• Browse the new RSS feed "Random"

Here’s the full feature list (PDF) in case you want all the details. [Via Sami Iwata]

Completely tangential but involving colors: Art Lebedev’s Optimus Tactus keyboard concept. [Via Scott Valentine]