Great online color tools
Are you color challenged? Don’t know what color goes best with another?
Luckily, there are many online tools to help you muddle your way through whether you are designing a web site or trying to find the perfect paint color for your home. Many will provide color suggestions based on the age-old color wheel but there are many creative tools that can even provide a color palette from an image.
Here are some of the best ones:
- Color Hunter is a place to find and make color palettes created from images. To find color palettes on Color Hunter, enter a search term or search by tag or hex color code or image URL. If you have an image, you can upload it and get a color palette based on the colors in the image.
www.colorhunter.com
- Kuler, from Adobe is a web-hosted application that generates color themes. With Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes. Kuler panels are built into Adobe Illustrator® CS4, Photoshop® CS4, InDesign® CS4, Fireworks® CS4, and Flash® CS4 Professional software.
www.kuler.adobe.com
- If you are looking for Color Combination ideas, check out the combo library. The library contains hundreds of color swatches, along with their color hex values. You can also use the website color grabbing tool or the search tool to get a quick start.
www.colorcombos.com
- Toucan, the tool from aviary.com, allows you to pick and analyze colors. Choose up to 20 colors per palette using color association rules or an uploaded image. Toucan knows all about color theory, and you can even see a color deficiency preview.
www.aviary.com
Andy Bauer is a tech writer for West Florida Components. You can view more of his articles on the blog at http://www.westfloridacomponents.com.
(image: Kakade, Creative Commons)