New Colorz Zope/Plone Package

For ease of use they are released in a combined package. More information downloads, screenshots etc. can be found here.

Colorz

Colorz is a standard Zope product, and can be used to generate derived colors from a few basic colors. Using standard color theory. This makes it extremely easy to generate reusable color schemes. Colorz can be used without ColorzSkin.

The idea is that you have 1 main color. Typically the same color as the logo. You insert the hex value of that color in the text field and save your color scheme.

Then you can enter a color difference in degrees into another field to generate a new set of colors.

You can try out different degree settings and see the results on some test pages that uses different color schemes. There is also a color table available that gives an overview of the colors generated.

You don't have to use generated colors though. You can just insert color values manually, and enjoy the other benefits of the module.

More info, and screenshots here

ColorzSkin

Is a set of skins for Plone. Each skin implements a different color scheme. ColorzSkin depends on Colorz, and cannot be used without it.

It is relatively easy to create new skins for Plone-based sites. But if you want to change the colorscheme of a site, you have to change color values in many different places.

For it to look good, you have to know something about color theory.

The ColorzSkin products makes it easy to use the colorz product in Plone. You can easily create a new Plone skin in a different style, using different color schemes. Most of the work is done for you automatically.

Best of all, you don't have to know anything about color theory to use it.

More info, and screenshots here