Color Selection Links
wellstyled: Color Scheme Generator 2:
My favorite color brainstorming tool. Click on a color and it chooses
six matching colors. You can choose different schemes for choosing
colors (i.e. monochrome or contrasting) and can even choose the
distance from your color for contrasting schemes. Another nice feature:
view how your colors would look to those with various forms of
colorblindness.
Eric Meyer - Color Blender:
This one’s simple, but I use it more than anything else. Enter two
colors (hex or RGB) and it displays any number of in-between colors.
Excellent for finding an additional color or two for a site that
already has a color scheme, or for modifying an existing scheme when
you just want it a bit lighter or darker (blend with #FFFFFF or
#000000).
ColorMatch Remixed:
Nice and simple: use the RGB sliders to choose a color, and it picks
nine complementary colors (some shades of your color, some shades of a
contrasting color, and greys)
Color Harmonies:
Non-JavaScript. Enter three RGB values and an array of colors is
generated. These are mostly contrasting colors rather than shades of
your color.
SlayerOffice - Color Palette Creator 1.6:
Enter a color (hex) and it produces nine variant colors. These are
strictly shades of your color, mixed first with white and then with
black.
VisiBone Webmaster’s Color Lab: Click on a color in the palette and it displays a selection of contrasting colors (often very contrasting!)
Web Color Theory:
This one doesn’t choose colors for you. Instead, it lets you drag
colors from the palette onto a sample page layout to see how they will
look.
Color Schemer: Click on a color (or enter one) and it displays a grid of 16 complementary and contrasting colors.
If these aren’t enough, ScriptyGoddess has an entire color tools category with many more links.
And if you want to learn how to choose colors rather than have a
tool do it for you, here are some general articles I found helpful:
