When Adobe released Creative Suite 2 they included a new color palette format. ASE or Adobe Swatch Exchange was designed so that colors could be accurately moved between the variety of applications in the suite. Since it was specifically designed to make sharing colors easy it was an obvious target for color sharing websites (ColourLovers and Kuler both use it for downloads, for example). So ASE files with interesting and useful sets of colors are easy to get ahold of, and easy to use in Adobe programs. But what if you wanted to use them in a Flex or Flash application? Well, now you can use my AS3ASE library (generic name, I know). Note that it makes use of Yahoo!’s Astra libraries, since they already had some great classes for RGB and CMYK colors.
Well, I had no idea that this was coming, but Adobe AIR has received a finalized logo. I’d actually kind of thought that the square with “AIR” in it was final, after all it did match the form of the current CS3 apps. It looks like Adobe may be trying to give it’s individual applications or application families a stronger visual identity, which can only be a good thing.
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