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10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools
Color plays an important role in the way we communicate with each other. Color not only helps give a design visual beauty, but it can also make a person react or feel a certain way. This feeling may be on a subconscious level, but it could affect the way that person thinks about a product or service. That’s why it is so important to choose the right palette when creating a new design. Here are some resources and tools to help you choose that perfect color palette
COLOURlovers
COLOURlovers is the ultimate resource for all things color related. It is a social site that gives people the ability to share and rate color palettes and read color related articles.
Kuler
Kuler is an Adobe site that also lets you share and rate color themes, but it also gives you the ability to download and use these themes in Adobe Creative Suite.
COPASO
COPASO is a tool that can be found on COLOURlovers, but since it is so robust, I wanted to include it separately. It includes features such as a scratch pad to save colors and a photo color extraction tool.
ColorJack
Color Jack is an advanced set of tools for choosing color schemes.
ColorBurn
The ColorBurn is a simple widget that provides daily color palette inspiration.
ColorSchemer
ColorSchemer’s online tool allows you to enter a Hex value and in return, it give you a matching color palette.
ColorBlender
Color Blender returns a blended color scheme based to two color value inputs.
Color Wizard
Color Wizard returns a scheme based on a submitted color.
ColourMod
ColourMod is a dashboard widget that give you and easy way to pick and convert color values.
ColorZilla
ColorZilla is a Firefox extension that allows you to determine the color value of any point in your browser. It also gives you the ability to measure distance between two points and get various information about DOM elements.
18 Comments
Jul 28, 2008
I would also suggest Cameron Adams’ Technicolor page.
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Technicolor/
It allows you to select a primary color, the gives you a color palette with a web page mockup widget that allows you to play with were you want the colors to appear on the web page.
I find it highly useful.
Jul 28, 2008
@Tanny - Thanks for pointing this one out. It looks like a very useful tool.
Jul 28, 2008
i use kuler alot the downloadable swatches are good , but not really looked for any others good collection to look through.
Thanks
Max | Design Shard
Jul 28, 2008
Very handy, thanx!
Jul 28, 2008
ColorZilla is the best tool you could have on Firefox.
Jul 28, 2008
Gosh, i just had 3 of the above websites in my list. I will surely checkout the other websites listed above. thanks.
Jul 28, 2008
Excellent post. First one of these color resource posts to show me sites I had not used before. Previously I have liked adobes color studio best but not really all the happy with it. Thanks.
Jul 28, 2008
I’m a fan of COLOURlovers and i love the ColorZilla pluggin for firefox.
Jul 28, 2008
Thank you for the helpful information. I am looking forward to using your helpful advice.
Jul 28, 2008
I just know two of the above. Thanks for the great post. I’ll check out the other sites as well.
Jul 29, 2008
Of course a good “off-line” option is the Color Thesaurus:
http://magcloud.com/browse/Magazine/1745
It’s got hundreds of color names and corresponding RGB values all in one place. I’ve been using it recently and found it pretty handy.
Nice post.
Jul 29, 2008
I use Kuler I do, but some here I have never heard of, I am definately bookmarking this page.
Jul 29, 2008
Nice stuff, plenty of sites here I’ve not come across yet, will definitely check them out.
Jul 29, 2008
Nice post!!!
Here other compilation.
Color palette
Jul 29, 2008
I like EasyRGB for finding additional colors once I’ve selected at least one. http://www.easyrgb.com/index.php?X=HARM
Jul 29, 2008
What a great set of resources, thanks for sharing
This flickr searcher finds images based on the colours you select, the results are pretty stunning -
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=fdf775,842db8;
Jul 30, 2008
I find your posts full of useful information and terrific tips. Keep ‘em coming!
Aug 14, 2008
keren banget kang, cool thanks
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