10+ Great Online Tools to help you with Color Schemes

Color Schemes are an important part of a designers job (and life). Sometimes you can find easily the color palette that you need but sometimes you can’t. That’s why I have 10+ Great Online Tools to help you with Color Schemes, take a look and find your colors!

1. Adobe Kuler

Adobe Kuler

Kuler is a web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

2. Color Scheme Designer

Color Scheme Designer

Color Scheme Designer has a beautiful interface that helps you create beautiful color schemes in seconds. Colorblind simulation is built in so you can ensure usability will be optimized for all users.

3. Colour Lovers

Colour Lovers

COLOURlovers is an international community of designers and artists of all kinds who visit the site to get color inspiration, ideas and feedback for both their professional and personal projects.

4. ColoRotate

ColoRotate

ColoRotate is a very good tool helping you to work with colors in 3D and realtime!

5. ColorJack

ColorJack

A simple interactive color wheel with several customization options and color theory formulas.

6. Daily Color Scheme

Daily Color Scheme

Every day brings a new featured color scheme. Choose from a variety of download formats and browse past color schemes.

7. Color Explorer

Color Explorer

ColorExplorer is a free online toolbox for designing and working with color palettes. It including tools like Color Picker, Color Libraries or Color Matching.

8. Toucan

Toucan

Used alone or in conjunction with our other creation tools, Toucan gives you the features you need to inject color into your creative process.

9. ColorSpire

ColorSpire

A simpler, no frills interface that helps you build a five swatch color scheme. Provides a nifty preview of the selected colors working together on a basic site frame.

10. Pictaculous

Pictaculous

Pictaculous is simple! Upload your image and get a color palette from it instantly.

11. Color Grab

Color Grab

Type a URL of any online image below and our system will tell you the most used colours from that image, and as a result give you some inspirtation!

12. 0to255

0to255

0to255 cures your color manipulation woes. Simply pick the color that you want to start with and 0to255 gives you a range of colors from black to white using an interval optimized for web design. Then, just click the variation you want to use and the hex code is automatically copied to your clipboard.

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Written by: Stratos Iordanidis

Stratos Iordanidis is a 16 years old Web Designer. Works with Photoshop, Wordpress and HTML/CSS everyday! Check out Stratos' Portfolio or follow him on Twitter.

One Comment

  1. Wow, Thanks for sharing good information about color scheme choose for websites. This information will very useful. I would love to try it.

    Thanks… :)

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