Patent ID: 7705856

Claim:
A coloring support system that supports work for applying coloring to a document, comprising: coloring rule storing means that stores coloring rules defining coloring; document data inputting means that inputs document data forming the document; color information acquiring means that acquires, on the basis of the document data inputted by the document data inputting means, color information concerning colors applied to the document; coloring rule analyzing means that judges, on the basis of the color information acquired by the color information acquiring means, coloring rules that match coloring applied to the document among the coloring rules in the coloring rule storing means and matching colors that match the coloring rules among colors applied to the document; and coloring rule presenting means that presents the coloring rules judged by the coloring rule analyzing means and coloring pallets, which include the matching colors judged by the coloring rule analyzing mean, colors approximating to the matching colors, or colors obtained by combining the colors, in association with one another; wherein, the coloring rule storing means groups the coloring rules and stores the coloring rules grouped, and the coloring rule analyzing means judges coloring rules that match the coloring applied to the document among the coloring rules in the coloring rule storing means and other coloring rules belonging to a group identical with a group to which the coloring rule belongs.