If you're unsure about your colour scheme, Mudcube has a selection of themes to choose from
The Mudcube Colour Sphere
is a handy little colour resource for designers in that it not only
provides the hex numbers for each colour; it also helps you to build up a
colour scheme from one chosen shade. If you're unsure what colour
scheme you should be going for, Mudcube provides a selection of themes
from a drop-down menu.
Make sure you're using the correct colour combinations in your web design with this handy tool
This web designer's tool 'Check my Colours'
is designed to check foreground and background colour combinations of
all DOM elements, to determine if they provide sufficient contrast when
viewed by someone having colour deficits. All the tests are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It was created by web designer Giovanni Scala.
Color Hunter provides a colour palette using your chosen image
Although Color Hunter
may not look like much at first glance, it's actually a really useful
colour tool if you can't find a particular colour. Find an image that
you like the look of and then enter it into Color Hunter; the tool will
then create a colour palette from your chosen image. It's a great way to
create your own colour theme.
If you’re looking for an exact colour, you can enter the hex number in the URL
This website uses a database of 10 million Creative Commons
images harvested from Flickr to let you explore colour combinations.
It's probably the fastest way to get free images in the perfect colour
combination, and it's also just a fascinating and intuitively designed
tool that's a pleasure to use.
Color lets you find the perfect colour by moving around your mouse - then gives you that all-important colour hex codeColor by HailPixel
is a handy little web app if you're a bit of a perfectionist when it
comes to getting the colour just right. Hover your mouse anywhere across
the screen to nail down your chosen colour, scroll to set your
saturation, and the site will give you that all-important hex code for
your projects. It's one of the easiest such tools we've ever used.
Spycolor is a handy free service for finding colour information
SpyColor.com is a free service that provides information
about any colour, including conversions to many colour models (RGB,
CMYK, and many more). A range of schemes - such as complementary,
split-complementary, triadic, tetradic, five-tone, clash, analogous and
monochromatic colours - can be found on each colour page.
Designspiration will generate a display of all images with your chosen colour combinations
At Designspiration,
you can select up to five hues from a useful full-page palette, which
gives you the chance to really see what colors you’re looking at. The
site will then generate a display of all the images in its database with
that colour combination. The hex numbers are prominently displayed, and
you can click on them individually. Images can be saved to your
collections on the site.
Kuler is probably the best known of the colour toolsPerhaps the best known of all online colour theme
tools, Adobe Kuler has graduated from a simple web-based colour tool to a
fully fledged theme generation and sharing resource. Plugins are
available for all the main Adobe tools including Photoshop, Illustrator
and InDesign, making it a great integrated tool for regular Creative
Suite users.
ColorExplorer is one of the most feature-rich tools availableThis is possibly one of the most in-depth tools
available on the web, offering a wide range of tools to design,
customize and analyze your colour palettes. There are, for example,
tools that can help you determine the WCAG
validity of your colour choices, conversion tools to help you move
between different systems, as well as a whole suite of picker and
palette generation tools.
Hex generates colours that combine well with an existing colour reference
A handy little tool for generating colours that will work
in combination with an existing colour reference you have. Simply paste
in a hexadecimal colour value, and the tool will return a set of
pleasing colours that can be used with your base colour and feel like a
deliberate theme decision.
COLOURlovers is a bit like Pinterest for colour
COLOURlovers is a community designed around the sharing
and appreciation of colours, palettes and patterns. It’s a bit like a
Pinterest board for colour, and provides a ready source of inspiration
in the palettes shared by its users. A great tool if you’re a colour
aficionado, and like to share your passion.
Color Scheme Designer offers some interesting ways to generate colour themes
This online tool provides a similar output to Adobe Kuler,
but has some interesting ways of generating colour themes by allowing
you to select from the scheme brightness/saturation, and contrast rather
than selecting the individual colours that make up the scheme. A range
of standard mathematical scheme methods are available including mono,
triad, tetrad and analogic.
COPASO is a great all-in-one solution to creating a colour scheme
One of the tools within the COLOURlovers
site, COPASO is worth highlighting individually as a great all-in-one
solution to generating palettes. It offers a full range of colour
selection tools within a simple interface, including the ability to add
notes to your palettes, upload images, enter CMYK references directly
and select from a range of different operations to build your colour
scheme.
Lightweight desktop tool Colourmod is a useful way to pick and identify a colour
Colourmod is a desktop-based tool that allows you to
choose a single colour from within your widget area, whether you’re on a
Mac with dashboard, or using Konfabulator on Windows. Not directly a
colour palette tool as such, but nonetheless it offers a useful way to
pick and identify a colour without having to launch a heavy-weight tool.
ColorZilla is available for Chrome and Firefox
This started out life as a Firefox plugin, but is now also
available for Google’s Chrome browser. ColorZilla is an extension that
includes a raft of colour-related tools including a colour picker,
eye-dropper, css gradient generator and palette browser.
Colormunki lets you generate colour schemes from Pantone swatches
A useful online tool from the makers of the Colormunki
colour calibration tool, this online offering allows you to create
colour palettes from Pantone swatches using a number of different
methodologies to generate pleasing combinations.
Colr.org lets you see the range of colours within an image
This pared-down tool offers a unique insight into the
colour-from-image analysis that is automated in other tools, allowing
you to see the range of colours available within an image, and pick
those that appeal to you to form the basis for a theme. Well worth a
look, even if it’s not quite as visually polished as some of the other
tools available on the web.
ColourGrab is a great little tool for creating colour schemes from images
This handy little tool creates a colour palette from any
image on the web. Simply paste in the address of the image you’d like to
analyze, and the site will grab the image, pull out the colours within
it and generate a handy 3D pie chart showing colour usage throughout the
image. Not so useful for creating traditional themes, but great for
examining images and the colour distribution within them.
ColorBlender generates a set of five colours that work well together
One of the easiest tools available, this website allows
you to grab a swatch, adjust the colour and watch in real-time as it
generates a set of five colours that work in combination. The palettes
can be downloaded directly to Photoshop, or to Illustrator in the form
of an EPS file
GrayBit lets you analyze a website to see what it looks like in grayscale
This handy tool won’t help you choose a colour theme
directly, but it will help you analyze your site (or someone else’s) to
see what your site looks like rendered in greyscale. This is useful for
checking that you’ve achieved sufficient contrast in your colour palette
to meet accessibility guidelines, and regulatory compliance.
COLRD is a great way to share and discover colour schemes
This colourful tool acts as a great source of inspiration
by sharing colour palettes generated by its users, as well as patterns,
gradients and images. A visual feast for the eyes, it’s not a simple
generation tool, but it worth a visit to find some happy discoveries.
Color Hunter is a great colour discovery tool
A useful way to quickly grab a colour palette from images
uploaded, by searching for an appropriate tag, or by HEX reference.
Quick and easy to use, it’s more about being a discovery than a colour
generation tool, but offers a nice range of palettes to choose from.
You can filter images by their colour balance and brightness
Sometimes the best way of seeing if a colour scheme will work is via a selection of stock images. All the main stock image libraries offer this kind of tool, but Shutterstock Spectrum
has a particularly nice interface because the images are displayed on
such a large scale. After using the slider to determine your colour
search, you can further specify a keyword that determines the subject
matter with impressive accuracy. An intriguing option allows you to
filter images by their colour balance and brightness.
Stripe Generator 2.0 can help create attention-grabbing colour combinations
Billed as the "ultimate tool for web 2.0 designers", you
might think this tool has had its day (even if it’s all tongue in
cheek). Regardless, it’s a useful way to generate pleasing colour
combinations, and to generate eye-popping patterns at the same time!
Colors on the Web is powered by FlashColors on the Web accepts a single colour in
hexadecimal or RGB, and outputs a set of schemes based on different
mathematical equations, similar to Kuler. This won’t work on iPad or
iPhone though as it uses Flash to power the schemer.
Pictaculous lets you upload an image and generate a colour scheme from it
This excellent tool from the makers of MailChimp allows
you to upload an image and generate a colour scheme from the colours
within. It integrates with some of the other tools featured in our list,
bringing you results from Kuler and Colourlovers simultaneously.
There’s also a handy Adobe Swatch download for your theme, making it a
quick and easy way to grab the colours you need to complement a photo.
Contrast-A lets you simulate the effects of various visual disabilities
This is a somewhat unusual colour scheming tool, in that
it’s designed to help ensure you create WCAG-compliant colour schemes by
allowing you to preview levels of contrast, and simulate colour
blindness, reduced vision and clinical blindness. There is also an
invaluable set of links to guidelines (in much more user-friendly terms
than the specification document itself)
ColoRotate boasts a beautiful visualisation of the colour wheels
Offering similar functionality to Kuler, but with a nice
3D visualisation of the colour wheels, and the ability to generate more
than five colours in a single scheme, ColoRotate can also be integrated
directly into some Creative Suite applications, and offers a nice
alternative to Adobe’s own offering.
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