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20+ Color Tools for Designers

20+ Color Tools for Designers

Tools make things more easier. Same as with designers, color tools are of great importance for the designers. Choosing the right colors and color combination for your web is crucial when anticipating a certain feel, reaction or emotion from your viewers. In this situation, you should play around with different color variations. Color tools help you determine matching color or even suggest sets of matching color palette when you are totally clueless. Color tools help you determine matching color or even suggest sets of matching color palette when you are totally clueless.

BestDesignTuts.com has enlisted 20+ Color tools exclusively for the designers along with a brief description about them. So what are you waiting for ! Just check out below…

Color Wheel

Colors on the Web
The color wheel randomizes among some 16 million colors. And since each spin produces three different colors, that gives endless combinations.

Color Hunter

Color Hunter

You can create and find color palettes from images.

Color Schemer Studio

Color Schemer Studio

ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color-matching application that will help you build beautiful color schemes quickly and easily. Use ColorSchemer Studio to identify color harmonies for the web (RGB) or print (CMYK), create palettes from photos, search over a million existing color schemes with COLOURlovers integration, mix colors, create gradient blends, and much more.

Checkmycolors

Checkmycolors

It is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits.

Color Rotate

Color Rotate

Now colors come in 3D. Browse color palettes or create your own. Adjust ,mix,and blend the colors.

Contrast – A Find Accessible Color Combinations

Contrast - A Find Accessible Color Combinations

The application allows users to experiment with color combinations, examine them under the aspect of accessibility guidelines and to create custom color palettes.
Contrast-A checks color combinations for sufficient contrast and displays the results according to WCAG 2.0 (Luminance Ratio) as well as the results according to older accessibility guidelines, WCAG 1.0.

Infound Color Schemer

Infound Color Schemer

This color schemer is a simple tool to help you experiment with various color schemes for your next web or print project. Click around within the shaded box to set the saturation and brightness, or within the rainbow to set the hue. You can also enter a particular value directly into one of the boxes. Matching colors will be automatically chosen. You can click on one to set it as the primary color.

Net Effect

Net Effect

Specify a base color in decimal (R,G,B) or #hex – or in CSS color specification format. Choose Lightness steps (20%, 10% or 5%). Choose the target for which you want to set a new color, either by clicking the appropriate button in the control area above, or by clicking directly on the target here in the template (IE only).

Colormod

Colormod

ColourMod originally made its debut as one of the most flexible, not to mention, good looking, DHTML Dynamic Color Pickers out there. Since then ColourMod has become even more robust, with room to expand beyond imagination.

Pictaculous

Pictaculous

You can use phone also for this. Take a picture from your camera. Send it to colors@mailchimp.com, then wait fort he reply. Otherwise, just upload the image and get the color palette.

Color Jack

Color Jack

It is also a great color tool for designers.

Color Schemer Online V2

Color Schemer Online V2

You need to enter RGB or HEX value or click on any given color palettes

ColorCombos

ColorCombos

The heart of the site is the Combo Tester, which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen. 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.

Color Blender

Color Blender

ColorBlender is a free online tool for color matching and palette design! You need to choose a preferred color using the color picker below, and a 6-color matching palette (a “blend”) will be automatically calculated. Using the radio buttons you may switch to Direct Edit mode to tweak or edit individual colors of your blend. Blends can be saved for future use, and will be available whenever you return to this site from the same workstation, given that your browser accepts cookies.

Colr.org

Colr.org

You can randomly select any image from Flickrs.com or load your own.

Color Explorer

Color Explorer

ColorExplorer is an online toolbox for working with color palettes. With ColorExplorer you can quickly and easily create, manage and evaluate color palettes for use in graphic design, web designs, layouts, and much more.

Colour Grab

Color Grab

ColourGrab is about er.. colours! Type a URL of any online image and their system will tell you the most used colours from that image, and as a result give you some inspirtation!

Color Spire

Color Spire

There are three steps:

  • The first step in designing your own color scheme is to choose a base color.
  • With the color wheel, it’s easy to find analogous colors, complementary colors, triad or tertiary colors, etc.
  • We provide a simple and easy to use online color schemes creator to help you create your own color scheme.

Color Munki

Color Munki

ColorMunki is the all-in-one color solution that delivers unparalleled color control and color creation tools for photo and design digital workflows.

Pourpre

Pourpre

Color Toy

Color Toy

ColorToy 2.0 is a Flash based color scheme generator and picker. It generates complementary color schemes based on your inputted color values or randomly, which is much more fun.

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    Thanks for sharing… I have bookmarked “Checkmycolors”.

    will return to your blog :)

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    Great collection! There is one more great page for color trends that i find very interesting: http://www.colourlovers.com/

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