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Color-Identifying Apps

Cone is a Color Picker App to Help You Detect Pantone Colors in Real Life

— May 28, 2017 — Tech
This live color picker app helps you identify Pantone shades from the environment you are in. Whether you just appreciate painting with all the colors of the wind and celebrating the beauty around you or you suffer from color blindness, the Cone app by Kushagra Agarwal (who is color blind himself) "is a delightful and easy to use color picker for the real world."

To find Pantone colors around you, simply open the screen with color details to view Pantone shades closest to the hue you are looking at. Available in the App Store for iOS devices, the smartphone application also lets you focus on, detect and even name any color you point your phone at.
Trend Themes
1. Live Color Picker - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop a live color picker app that identifies and names colors in real-time for various industries such as graphic design, fashion, home decor, and automotive.
2. Color Accessibility - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create color-identifying apps specifically designed to assist individuals with color blindness, allowing them to accurately perceive and interact with the world around them.
3. Pantone Integration - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Integrate Pantone color recognition into mobile applications, enabling users to easily identify and match Pantone colors for accurate color representation in design and printing industries.
Industry Implications
1. Graphic Design - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop color-identifying apps tailored for graphic designers to quickly and accurately identify colors, streamline the design process, and enhance color consistency.
2. Fashion - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create fashion-focused color picker apps that enable users to identify and match Pantone colors, aiding in color selection for apparel, accessories, and textile design.
3. Home Decor - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Build color recognition apps for the home decor industry to assist users in identifying colors from their surroundings, facilitating color coordination and inspiration for interior design projects.
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