The following is a compilation of web resources for picking and choosing colors for design. The list includes color wheels, palette generators, and the like. They’re very useful for designing websites.
4096 Color Wheel – Hover over the color wheel to view colors, or click to choose “web-safe” and “web-smart” colors.
Accessibility Color Wheel – An interactive color wheel to help you find which font colors work best with which background colors.
Color Blender – Enter two colors and this tool will find a set number of mid-point values between the two.
Color Cell – Create and combine colors and vote on other’s combinations.
Color Combos – Grab the colors of any website.
The Color Database – A tool that gives you a mountain of information about any color that you choose from the color wheel.
Color Inspirator – A random palette generator to inspire your designs.
Color Jack – A beautifully graceful color wheel that helps you navigate through complementary colors
Colour Lovers – Browse palettes or create your own and share them.
Color Mixers – A limited tool that mixes colors into a palette using three sliders.
Color Palette Generator – Enter the URL of an image and this tool extracts a color palette from it.
Color Palette Generator – This tool generates a palette from a picture you upload.
Color Schemer – Choose a color from a palette to browse it’s matching and complimentary colors.
Color Scheme Generator 2 – An fantastic color wheel system for designers that vastly simplifies matching and contrasting colors.
Color Tool – Create and share color schemes that can be shown off online.
Color Toy: The Flash Color Schemer – A Flash tool that generates a bar of variations on that color.
Colors Wizard – Enter a base color, and receive matching colors, hue, saturation and tint and shade variations.
Colr – Generate a palette from a random Flickr or an uploaded image, but also view the picture with the color swatches overlaid on top of the picture
Colr Pickr – Find Flickr pictures by choosing a color
Daily Color Scheme – A set of downloadable, professionally chosen color schemes rotated daily.
Gray Bit – An intriguing tool that converts a full-color webpage into a grayscale version for the purpose of testing the page’s contrast for accessibility
Huge Labs Palette Ganerator – Upload a photo to generate a harmonious color palette from a photograph
More Crayons – An interesting ways to visualize the color palette, as a reducible cube.
Name that color – Choose a color from the wheel to see the color’s name.
Pic2Color – This tool generates a palette from the picture of your choice.
As always, if I’ve missed something, feel free to mention it below.
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