The Voice of Color is a color program put forth by PPG to help inspire consumers for their next color choice. The program focuses on the individual, style, the five senses, and personality to influence color palettes for your next project. The program is an excellent resource for ideas and enthusiasm.
With all of that being said the Voice of Color also has an app available on Google Play and the App store. This app is a good choice if you are interested in pulling a color from a photo and interacting with your environment. After playing with the app in the store, the most impressive and useful feature by far is the ability to pull colors from a photo. While this is not a novel concept, the ability to look at shades and harmony of a color pulled from a photo is very useful in finding exact hue and shade you are looking for.
In our shop, John took the time to build a palette on our wall of different colors, a perfect test case for the app.
I took the above picture for the app to analyze and draw colors from and the app did very well! It was extremely close at pulling the exact colors we used. The most interesting feature of the app was the ability to click on items in the photo. Most of the time the image is analyze and you are presented with colors from the image, this app allows you to interact with all of the colors in the photo. As you can see from the image I simply clicked one of the colors on our palette wall and immediately I was given shades, names, and the ability to save these colors.
The other unique feature of this app is the Harmony section. This section provides you with complement colors to help you visualize a palette using the selected color as a central feature. The Harmony feature is a wonderful touch for envisioning a room, style, or accessories and furniture you will use along with your new room color.
This app is a wonderful tool if you stumble upon colors that inspire you or that you would like to take home with you, just pull out your phone and snap a photo and head to your nearest PPG dealer and narrow down the palette you want in your home or on your next project.