Below we’ve compiled a list containing
20 Color Combination Tools for Designers. You can use this list to chose the tool that better fits your needs or that you’re most comfortable using.
The 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.
Color Scheme Designer has been around for some time and was recently
re-written and designed. It currently has great color space conversions,
a preview pane, enhanced scheme creation, and a permanent URL of the
schemes you create. It’s almost as if it were a hosting site for color
schemes.
This application allows you to experiment with various color
combinations, review your colors accessibility, and create color
palettes.
Infohound Color Schemer helps you find and test color schemes for
whatever the reason may be. Features included allow you to configure the
saturation and brightness, set the value for hue, and have your colors
automatically matched for you.
This tool lets you check the foreground and background of color
combinations and gives you the option to determine whether the color
variation is suitable for individuals with vision impairments.
Toucan allows you to choose up to 20 colors per palette using color
association rules or an uploaded image, collaborate with other users,
and import images from Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook.
The Hex Color Scheme Generator is a great tool to use if you want to
create a beautiful and logical color scheme. It acts as an “advisor” for
colors. You simply tell it which colors you’d like to use, and the app
will generate the best results that match.
Pictaculous lets you upload your image and analyze its colors. This is
ideal for the designer who creates several graphics at a time and would
like to distinguish the looks without having to manually choose the best
combining colors every time.
This website gives you the option to generate limitless color
combinations and schemes. If you already know at least one of the colors
you plan on using, this site will take care of the rest. This is good
for testing out colors in your code when you’re not sure what they are. I
personally use this app on a regular basis.
Daily Color Scheme serves its users a new color scheme every single day
of the year. This can help you discover new color combinations that you
hadn’t thought of before, also a great source for color inspiration.
This is an advanced color palette tool that lets you create beautiful
color schemes and custom themes. To begin working with colors you’ll
have a scratch pad at your disposal. Before you begin using this app,
make sure you try the scratch pad, it’s a feature that allows you to
store all of the colors you’re working with for later use. You’ll also
have a photo tool to extract colors, and an advanced color picker as
well as a color theory wheel to give you the right type of inspiration.
ColorExplorer takes working with digital colors to the next level. You
can get right down to work with a colorful toolbox that lets you quickly
and easily create, manage, and explore several color palettes.
Kolur is a simple yet, effective color application that lets you browse
color palettes. The color combinations and schemes displayed within
their gallery go further than the standard 3 color “rule”, it’s unique
and leaves you open with several possibilities per combination.
Color Hunter allows you to upload your images and view the different
colors that it contains. You can also browse through their current color
schemes.
GrayBit is an online testing tool created to convert an entire web-page
into the grey-scale so that you’re able to visually recognize certain
contrasts between different elements in your layout.
ColorZilla was designed for Firefox, it gives you an advanced
eyedropper, a helpful color picker, a useful palette viewer and other
tools all within the reach of your browser.
ColourMod was originally released as a web-based DHTML Dynamic Colour
Picker. With the advancement and popularity of the Mac interface,
ColourMod can now be found in your Dock once you’ve downloaded it.
You’ll be able to examine colors on your desktop, websites, graphics,
applications, and more!
ColourGrab lets you type in the URL of any image online and this
application will tell which are the most useful and best used colors for
that specific image. You can link to your project images that are
hosted online and veiw which are the best and most used colors within
the images. Great for
custom logo design.
ColorMunki is an all-in-one color app that gives you complete color
control of your color creation tools. You’re able to find, choose, and
compare several different colors.
The Sessions educational Color Calculator is an interactive color wheel
that allows any designer to select RGB, or CMYK colors for the creation
of useful colors schemes. Sessions also claims to have the fastest color
tool on the web.
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disliked about this app and any of the others as well!
