21Dec2003
Color Pickers and Color Scheme Pickers
I was looking to find a nice color scheme for a site the other day and a quick search of the web brought back a number of useful online tools. I thought I'd make a list of them (in no particular order), more for my own benefit really.
As a side note, it would seem that the web-safe color palette has finally gone the way of the dinosaur. I don't think there are many designers (any?) out there who are concerned about this once-significant limitation.
Each of these apps has slightly different slant on picking colors and color schemes, and some are definitely better than others:
- ColorBlender
- Slayeroffice color palette tool
- http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html
- http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/
- http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~FX6M-FJMY/java09e.html
- http://www.catnmoose.com/wsc.shtml
- http://www.yoyodesign.org/outils/ncolor/ncolor8.html
- http://www.colors4webmasters.com/safecolor/
- http://color.twysted.net/
- http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html
- http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
- http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/color_toy_fr.htm
- http://www.colormatch.dk/
- http://www.easyrgb.com/harmonies.php
- http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/
- Color Schemer
- Color Cop (Win) is not an online tool but a free utility to pick a color from anything on your screen. It is extremely useful and a very worthwhile download.
Posted on: December 21, 2003 | 1 Comment
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Althought not an actual color picker persay, //// COLOURlovers™ is a community of color lovers who share their passion of paletts in a thriving community.
1. Posted by aphrospice on September 05, 2006