The Great Geek Manual

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.