On Jul 20, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Joshua A. Andler wrote:

My thought is that since we now have swatches, a “utility” like this would rock for knocking together good harmonious swatch sets with great ease. Just my .02



http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ColourPicker


That's been much of my intent from the beginning. I've been planing on drawing on everything I remember from my Color Theory class back in college, in addition to things from working with print and multimedia production.

One complication is that we want to support a more robust concept of 'color' than the simple  24-bit RGB values Gimp and other apps use.