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A MORE UPDATED LIST OF COLOR SCHEMING TOOLS - 55+ Color Tools for Color Palettes, Color Combinations, Color Schemes & More for Graphic Designers & Web Designers
ALSO SOME GREAT EXAMPLES OF COLOR COMBINATIONS THAT WORK - Color Scheme Examples for Web Designers and Graphic Designers
ARTICLES ON HOW TO CHOOSE COLORS
COLORS MAIN MENU
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TOP COLOR COMBINATIONS IN WEB DESIGN - The list of about 45 different simple designs implementing workable color combinations, and I will add to this list at regular intervals
Color Scheme Generator - I think this is the best color combination tool on the net. It really gives you a lot of different options and all the colors that they pick look wonderful together.
Color Schemer - A color generation tool that is very useful when designing.
Color Wheel Color Calculator - The Sessions Color Calculator is an interactive color wheel that helps designers select HTML, RGB, or CMYK colors and identifies color harmonies and schemes. Our Color Wheel works faster than any other color wheel or html color chart.
Color Impact - Just select the main color, and the visual color wheel instantly displays a selection of perfectly matching colors. Creating a color scheme for your design project has never been this easy!
Color Blender Tool - Pick a color value format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick the number of midpoints you'd like to see. The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.
Color Contrast Tool - Another great tool. Checkpoint 2.2 of the WAI guidelines requires that colour combinations created between foreground and background colours provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone with colour deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen
Color Match 5K - This utility will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your website. Define a single color that you like. Matching colors will be calculated. Click a color in the palette to promote it to the primary color.
Do It Yourself Design Center Digital Color Wheel - Choosing color is one of the most difficult decisions to make when decorating a room or an entire home. Color is integral to design and architecture, so choosing the right color and/or color combinations is important.
Visibone's Color Lab - An interesting color picker and combination tool online that is very helpful.
Color Brewer - An online tool designed to help people select good color schemes for maps and other graphics. It is free to use, although we'd appreciate it if you could cite us if you decide to use one of our color schemes.
I like Your Colors Tool - This tool will tell you what colors any page on the net uses. Type the URL of a page below and submit it to see what colors it uses.tool tells you the colors used on any web page.
Pantone and Hexidecimal Colour Conversion Chart - If you are designing a website that needs to use the same colors as a branded image, then you will love this tool. The chart suggests digital (hexadecimal) equivalents for standard Pantone ink colours. This is not an official Pantone list of hex equivalents, and is not intended as a definitive guide.
Advanced Javascript Color Picker - A visual way to select RGB color for form inputs on a web page. You can choose colors from a palette of web colors, named colors or by using a RGB color slider.
Color Combinations - Here are some Color combinations that will help you in designing on the web. The Color combinations are displayed along with hexadecimal color code so that you can pick the color quickly.
Color Combo - If you would like to view all of your colors side by side, then this might be for you. A 4 panel, scrolling, side-by-side color combination viewer.
Color Library - Tried and tested color combinations that are listed on this great site.
Web Color Schemes - Here are a lot of great color schemes taken from a variety of sources.
Lynda Weinman's Browser-Safe Colors Organized By Hue- A large list of browser safe colors organized by hue.
Lynda Weinman's Website Tips For Designers: Browser-Safe Colors Organized By Value (Lights and Darks) - A large list of browser safe colors organized by value.
Visibone's Swatch Collections - VisiBone swatch collections are available for the following fine graphics packages available free for BBEdit, Canvas, Fireworks, Flash MX, GIMP, GoLive, HomeSite, CF Studio, Illustrator, ImageReady, Paintshop Pro, Photoshop, Painter, and TopStyle
Color Wheel Pro - See Color Theory in Action - A software program to create color schemes and preview them on real-world examples.
Steel Dolpin Color Scheme Tool - You just insert the hex or rgb codes from or into Adobe Photoshop or any other image editing software and voila you are on your way to a great color scheme!
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A MORE UPDATED LIST OF COLOR SCHEMING TOOLS - 55+ Color Tools for Color Palettes, Color Combinations, Color Schemes & More for Graphic Designers & Web Designers
ALSO SOME GREAT EXAMPLES OF COLOR COMBINATIONS THAT WORK - Color Scheme Examples for Web Designers and Graphic Designers
ARTICLES ON HOW TO CHOOSE COLORS
COLORS MAIN MENU
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