Color Schemes

Color schemes

• http://color.sharewonders.com/ - very intuitive AJAX color scheme composer and previewer with ability to save your 7-color schemes.
• http://kuler.adobe.com/ - from Adobe Labs - create and share color schemes, import in Creative Suite 2 applications
• http://www.colourlovers.com - a place to view, rate and review some lovely colours & palettes. the idea is to create a place of color inspiration where a designer of any sort can see new and lovely colours... find out what colors are hot, what work well in other uses... and simply make some love with colour.
• http://colorblender.com/
• http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/ - A color set creator for 10 colors. Intuitive interface.
• http://colormixers.com/ - This colorpicker is based heavily upon the code from ColorMatch 5k. The author made it more compatible - it now works in Mozilla, and should also work in Opera, since it is using a much better slider control. 3 more colors have been added, bringing the total auto-generated colors to 9, and the ability to export your colors to a Photoshop color table.
• http://www.colormatch.dk/ (Javascript version)
• http://easyrgb.com/harmonies.php (no WYSIWYG)
• http://meyerweb.com/ has a very useful colour blending tool. Pick the beginning and end colours, the number of steps and it fills in the in-between values.
• http://www.triplecode.com/munsell/ - The Munsell system is different because it is based on how people perceive colors. At its core is a set of data from perceptual studies (done in the late 1930's) where people were asked to judge the differences in color pairs. The result is a data set which defines a perceptually uniform color space.
• http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html - Tool to create a color scheme and check it for compability with various eye disorders.
• http://www.colorcombos.com/

Color schemes from photographs/images

• http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/
• http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php

Web Safe Colors

• http://www.cloford.com/resources/colours/websafe2.htm
• http://html-color-codes.com/
• http://the-light.com/colclick.html - Uses a different layout that most.
• http://www.colorwhore.com/

Picking individual colors

• http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html - Color wheel: It is free to copy and use.
• http://milov.nl/2544 - "implemented a couple of php subdomain detection tricks for quick testing of hex and rgb colour codes"

Other Tools

• http://www.redalt.com/Tools/ilyc.php - see what colors a page uses
• http://colorcell.uneven.org/index2.php - breed colours

Links

• http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/000972.php - Loads of online colour tools listed here

User defineable colour schemes

• It would be nice to ship a range of predefined colour schemes that can be selected from by the end user, or have them define their own. One of these could be used for TWiki, as a demonstration (or we could even cycle between them ) There are many such predefined ranges of schemes on the web. This could be done with a preference like "Set COLORSCHEME = ShadesOfGray". See PatternSkinPalette

-- Contributors: PeterKlausner, MattWilkie, ArthurClemens, SamHasler, CrawfordCurrie, AndreaSterbini

Discussions

Retired the text at the top of the topic asking for a nicer colo[u]r scheme and reclassified this as a GatewayTopic. See PatternSkinPalette for help with creating a different color scheme for PatternSkin. See also WarmPatternSkin.

-- SamHasler - 19 Oct 2004

See PalettablePatternSkin

-- MartinCleaver - 22 Jul 2006

Not a regular user, but I thought you guys would appreciate this: an average color tool for photographs--great as a starting place for combos/themes. http://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-find-the-average-color-in-a-photograph.html

-- LindsayLaShell - 27 Apr 2007