Dave Pattern up in Huddersfield has reminded me that he has already done some work on identifying colours in book jackets and then retrieving them to good effect. Now I have been prompted, I vaguely remember having looked at Dave’s work. Yet when Richard suggested we could do something interesting with book jackets… nope… blank… Thanks dave for reminding me! I see also that Ed Vielmetti has spotted us at work… Ed, a bit of the back story can be found on the Colourphon Wiki 
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Of course this little project is in very early days – we are not even storing anything yet!! – so come back later and see how we are getting on. And of course, If you have any ideas or things that you think might be rather cool applications – let us know, either here, or on the aforementioned Wiki.
found the wiki thanks!
threw some links to image processing codes there, which could be useful for the computational approach.
the counterpart non-computational approach is an efficient crowdsource style type-in-the-color-of-this-book game, along the lines of “hot or not” or captcha or any other get lots of people to do a little work for you.
thanks for pursuing this…
Thanks for the pointers Ed.
hi! I’m very excited to test colourphon but currently URL and upload colour scan doesn’t work… When I paste image address it shows error messages.
I really hope to use it again. : )
Hi Ara,
Whoops ran out of space there :$ Should work again now.
Out of interest, what application for Colourphon do you have in mind? What do you think of it so far?