LibGuides: Forecasting: Fashion & Trends: Beyond FIT

Trend & Color Forecasting & Reporting Web Sites

Spate
"Spate is your machine intelligence solution for finding the next big consumer trend."
Trend Hunter
"World's largest, most popular trend community, featur[ing] a daily dose of innovative ideas, viral news and pop culture. "
CSI: Color Solutions International
Aspires to be the leading global supplier of color communication products & services for retailers and brands
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"With our CSI Color Inspirations we help the designer to visualize and plan the upcoming season. To give the designer quick access to a large variety of colors we provide one of the biggest selections of Ready Made Colors. If there is a design color so unique that it is not available as a Ready Made Color, we can tailor this color in our custom color matching process. Our repertoire of design tools is the right equipment for a designer's internal color communication."
Pantone / North America
Livetrends
This site scans what people on the street are wearing and tell you what colors are the trend in Paris, Milan and Antwerp.

Fashion Blogs

The following blogs provide a personal perspective on how people within, and outside, the fashion industry create personal style while utilizing trends and fashions from the past and present.

Create Color Palettes FROM a color or an image

Fashion Snoops This link opens in a new window
Use the Palette Builder tool to extract colors directly from any image that you upload. Click anywhere on the image to get the closest Pantone standard color matches.

Adobe Color Wheel CC
Color palette creation from an image, pre-set themes or custom.
ColorHexa.com
Online Color Tool generates matching color palettes and detailed Color Information, Color Conversion (CMYK/RGB/HEX and more), Color Schemes (such as complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic or monochromatic colors schemes), Color Alternatives, HTML/CSS Preview, Shades and Tints, Tones, and a Color Blindness Simulator. Select a color and then explore.
Color Hunter
Find and make color palettes created from images by entering a search term in the color palette search box. You can search by tag or hex color code or image URL. If you have an image or image url, you can upload it and get a color palette based on the colors in the image.
Colormind
Colormind is a color scheme generator that uses deep learning. It can learn color styles from photographs, movies, and popular art. Different datasets are loaded each day for color inspiration.
Colors LOL Palettes
"Overly descriptive color palettes" feed randomly generated from Twitter bot.
COLOURlovers
A social network, as well as a place to find tools for creating and sharing color palettes, seamless patterns, and palettes from photographs. Registration is required for access to some of the tools.
Coolors.co
Create, save and share palettes in seconds
Pantone Connect (Adobe Creative Cloud)
View trending palettes or build your own from updated swatch libraries or from an image. (Adobe Creative Cloud account required)

Blogs & Tumblrs From Trend Services

Fashion Snoops Tumblr
Fashion Snoops Tumblr is a creative space where our editors can voice their thoughts, inspiration and future trend ideas as they happen in real time.
WGSN Tumblr
WGSN Colour Archive
Formerly the StyleSight Tumblr
WGSN Blogs
CAUS blog
The Color Association of the U.S.
Trend Tablet
By Lidewij Edelkoort, of Trend Union and Bloom Magazine.
Trend Letter
Sign up to receive weekly trend letter from Lidewij Edelkoort.
Mix Magazine by Colour Hive (UK)