Color Resources
Color Palettes and Palette Generators
- Color Palette Generator
- Creates a color palette from an image.
- Color Blender
- Creates intermediate colors between 2 colors
- Color Schemer
- Enter a color in RGB or Hex - then generate a color scheme
- I Like Your Colors
- Gets the hues from a web page
- Photographic Palettes
- Create a color palette from an image
- Color Lovers: Color Trends + Palettes
- User-contributed color palettes
- Color Wizard
- Cool tool for creating colors - enter Hex digits or select with the RGB sliders, then see hue, saturation, and tint & shade variations. Select different color relationships such as triadic, complementary, etc.
- Color Hunter
- Create and find color palettes made from images
Color Names and Values
- Web Colors
- HTML colors, names, and Hex values
- 500+ Named Colors with RGB and Hex Values
- Really over 500 colors. Not all the names are web names, however.
Color Theory
- Color Theory for Web Designers
- Theory, combinations, web colors
- Color Meanings and Colors That Go Together
- Color meanings and other color theory info
Color Usability
- Color Contrast Checker
- Test contrast between two colors to see if they are distinguishable by someone with color problems or viewing the site on a B&W monitor
- Accessbility Color Wheel
- Cool tool - select two colors and check them for the 3 common kinds of color blindness
- Color Blindness Simulator
- Will show you how your images appear to someone with the 3 common kinds of color blindness

