I’ve included both the color palettes that are continuous (113 different gradation) and discretized at 8 and 10 intervals. Each of these 3 can be used both “forward” (FWD) and “reverse” (REV). How to use: Download and save in the “Palettes” folder within the main “ODV” folder. On my Mac, this is under “Documents”. Microsoft's Mac edition of its Excel spreadsheet application takes advantage of Microsoft Office's implementation of themes to simplify the task of standardizing worksheet. Feb 05, 2016.
Microsoft Office applications contain a shared library of over 20 alternative color palettes. PowerPoint, Word, and Excel share this same library of color schemes. However, I often find it difficult to find a good combination of colors for my PowerPoint projects within this built-in color library. More likely the colors in these palettes are not the ones we are going to use when creating branded presentations and documents.
Most of these built-in color swatches are dull, unexciting and outdated looking.
The good news is you can customize PowerPoint, Word, and Excel theme colors. Custom color palettes are especially useful when you have to use a non-predefined color scheme very often, such as the corporate colors of the company. You can develop a custom color palette to match your organization’s color scheme or to convey an idea or elicit a mood.
The bad news is unless you’re a professional designer, it takes hours and tremendous effort to find a color combination that works.
That’s why I have created a downloadable library of 150 modern color schemes for PowerPoint and other Office applications. After downloading the package, just follow the simple installation instructions provided in the User Guide file. Thereafter you will always have these beautiful color combinations in your preferred office application.
These color combinations are inspired from Abode color library and Coolors. Special thanks are given to those who had published these fantastic color combos.
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Hi all. There’s been some interest in my (not so original; oh well) color palettes based on the films of Wes Anderson.
Now it’s easier to download all of them at the same time. Click the link here to download a zip file with all the palettes and instructions on how to install (very simple).
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Ocean Data View is widely used by oceanographers, but their color palettes aren’t very exciting. I made new palettes for ODV (.pal files) that are inspired by the colors used in the films of Wes Anderson (except Bottle Rocket, which had a boring color palette).
I’ve included both the color palettes that are continuous (113 different gradation) and discretized at 8 and 10 intervals. Each of these 3 can be used both “forward” (FWD) and “reverse” (REV).
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How to use:
Download and save in the “Palettes” folder within the main “ODV” folder. On my Mac, this is under “Documents”. Then, when running ODV, select “properties” then “general” to change the palette. You will have to re-start ODV for the properties panel to see the new palettes.
Please let me know if you convert these palettes for another platform and I’ll add them to the list. (patrickrafter1@hotmail.com)
I should say that I had no idea other people were working on similar things, but you can see their work here.
Ocean Data View palettes:
Rushmore (FWD)
Rushmore (8 FWD)
Rushmore (10 FWD)
Rushmore (REV)
Rushmore (8 REV)
Rushmore (10 REV)
Royal Tenenbaums (FWD)
Royal Tenenbaums (8 FWD)
Royal Tenenbaums (10 FWD)
Royal Tenenbaums (REV)
Royal Tenenbaums (8 REV)
Royal Tenenbaums (10 REV)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (FWD)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (8 FWD)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (10 FWD)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (REV)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (8 REV)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (10 REV)
Hotel Chevalier (FWD)
Hotel Chevalier (8 FWD)
Hotel Chevalier (10 FWD)
The Darjeeling Limited (FWD)
The Darjeeling Limited (8 FWD)
The Darjeeling Limited (10 FWD)
The Darjeeling Limited (REV)
The Darjeeling Limited (8 FWD)
The Darjeeling Limited (10 FWD)
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (FWD)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (8 FWD)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (10 FWD)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (REV)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (8 REV)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (10 REV)
Moonrise Kingdom (Suzy) (FWD)
Moonrise Kingdom (Suzy) (FWD 8)
Moonrise Kingdom (Suzy) (FWD 10)
Moonrise Kingdom (Sam) (FWD)
Moonrise Kingdom (Sam) (FWD 8)
Moonrise Kingdom (Sam) (FWD 10)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (FWD)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (FWD 8)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (FWD 10)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (REV)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (REV 8)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (REV 10)
Catello Cavalcanti (FWD)
Catello Cavalcanti (FWD 8)
Catello Cavalcanti (FWD 10)
Isle of Dogs (FWD)
Isle of Dogs (FWD 8)
Isle of Dogs (FWD 10)
Isle of Dogs (REV)
Isle of Dogs (REV 8)
Isle of Dogs (REV 10)
Matlab palettes: TBA