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The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 11/2/2006 18:17:20   
Yep, it's the definitive colour scheming tool list (until Tail finds us some more :)).....

A collection of colour scheming resources compiled from posts here and elsewhere. Many of these tools allow you to generate a colour scheme for a website either based on a base colour, or some by analysing the colours in images. Many of these are web based apps that are free to use, but this list includes both free and paid tools. Many of these tools use color theory - but you don't need to be an expert in color theory to use these tools.

Color Scheme Tool: http://www.steeldolphin.com/color_scheme.html

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Feel free to use the program below for your web site design, digital painting or othergraphic design and art projects. Its what I use and I find it very good for my work. You just insert the hex or rgb codes from or into Adobe Photoshop or any other image editing software and voila you are on your way to a great color scheme!


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Website Color Match
and http://www.hypergurl.com/colormatch.php

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Color Match will show you how to match your web site colors and will save you time when choosing a web site color scheme or color code


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ColorJack

http://www.colorjack.com/studio/ (only works in Firefox, Opera or Safari)

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Color Palette Generator

Generate a colour palette based on an image.
http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/index.php

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upload your pic and get a colour scheme from it one. Gives the hex numbers of the colours it picks (as you hover over the colour)


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Behr ColorSmart

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It's actually meant for paint colour schemes but it works just as nicely for websites. You can always use a colour dropper to check the hex value or just use it as a starting point for your scheme.

Click on "Start ColorSmart" and then "Explore Colors"

http://www.behr.com/behrx/workbook/index.jsp

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Color Wheel Pro

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"A software program to create color schemes and preview them on real-world examples."

"Save the palette you create and load it into Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Flash, Corel Draw, etc."


http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/

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Convert Colors - RGB and Hex Color Conversion Tool

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"This color conversion tool allows you to convert Pantone® Spot Colors to RGB (sRGB) color values (Red/Green/Blue) and Hexadecimal color values (Hex). You can also view a Web Safe Color Palette and X11 Color Keywords with RGB, Hexadecimal and CSS Shorthand Hex color values."


http://www.seoconsultants.com/css/colors/conversion/

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Color Scheme Generator 2

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A neat little colour tool for picking colour schemes that allows you to select a colour from the colour wheel (or by entering an RGB value), pick whether you want a mono, contrast, triad, tetrad or analogous colour scheme, choose variations (pastel, dark pastel, light pastel, contrast and pale), and see an example of how the colours look together, with the ability to change which colour from the scheme is the base colour and see the effect, and also view the palette as it would look to people with different types of colour-blindness.


http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

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Hexadecimal Color Values Reference

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a colour tool that helps you find a colour scheme for your webpage, and gives you the hex codes for all the colours in the scheme.


http://www.hitmill.com/html/rgbcolorvalues.html

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Color Palette Generator

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Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.


http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

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ColorSchemer

http://www.colorschemer.com/ - ColorSchemer Online (an online colour scheming tool) and ColorSchemer Studio (paid desktop colour scheming app)

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Color Scheme Designer (commercial software)

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Color Scheme Designer is an easy to use and effective utility to design color schemes for use in web sites. It displays colors on a color wheel and and offers 4 modes of harmonies. The program features a preview window that resembles the basic structure of a web page. You can simply drag and drop colors into the page elements and preview how they will look together. You can save your scheme configuration and also export it to HTML.


http://www.snapfiles.com/get/csdesigner.html

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ColorImpact (commercial software)

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a no guesswork way to create beautiful color schemes


http://www.tigercolor.com/

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Pixie

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Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you'll need for working with colours.


http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

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Color Scheme Generator

http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme/index-en.html

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Visibone Color Lab

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Here' s another one that allows for browser friendly colors. Not as fancy but good non the less.


www.visibone.com/colorlab/

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Principles of graphic design: http://www.mundidesign.com/

Color Schemer Online: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

Color Blender: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/

Color Scheme Generator 2: http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

The Ultimate Color Scheme Generator: http://www.stylephreak.com/index.php/archives/2004/05/the-ultimate-color-scheme-generator/

Iconico Color Picker: http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

4096 Color Wheel: http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html

RGB/Hex converter: http://www.dave-stephens.com/computers/rgbconverter.htm

http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/index.php - Upload a photo to generate a colour scheme from it.



Firefox extensions:

Colorzilla: Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/271/

Web Color Names: Web color names browser/selector - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/399/

Rainbowpicker: pick any colour of the rainbow - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1693/

Palette Grabber: Creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, or Flash based on the current page - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2290/




They should keep you busy for a while...:)

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 11/2/2006 20:26:38   
Thanks for the list womble!

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 12/22/2006 17:53:28   
Yep, it's been a while since I posted any (and Tail's been very quiet of late :))...so here's another nice colour scheming tool....http://www.colorcombos.com/index.html

A library of pre-built colour schemes, test out different combinations, see what text looks like on the different colours, make a template using the selected colours, and the bit I really liked, grab the colours from an existing website and then play around with them, change them, move them, and make a template out of them - hours of amusement! :)



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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 12/24/2006 10:51:24   
And another one....:)

http://www.colr.org/

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 12/24/2006 11:15:58   
Stop it, I can't keep up. :)

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 4/26/2007 7:19:13   
MUWAHAHAHAHA!

I found one she hasn't and it's a good one.

Colours on the Web

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 4/26/2007 7:27:01   
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I found one she hasn't
Are you sure? I had that one in my bookmarks list and my sole source of those sort of sites is womble. I would never bother to try and find one on my own as she has provided a surfeit of them.

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 4/26/2007 8:48:43   
Well it's not in her list above so finder keepers. Nyer nyer. :)

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 4/26/2007 11:22:37   
Oi! Find your own obsession list to keep, you! :)

I've got my colour things, Tail's got her doctype articles collection. You can find your own list to keep. :) (but not fonts cos that's Mr Fonty from Finland's :))

Interesting site though I do have to concede. The spin the wheel wotsit's like a one armed bandit without any chance of a payout. I've just spent the last five minutes trying in vain to get a row of bunches of cherries, and not a single one! Not a very good game - it won't catch on. :)

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 6/8/2007 17:51:57   
I am not obsessed.
I am not obsessed.
I am not obsessed.
I am not obsessed...

...No, really I'm not! I was actually looking for a CSS imagemap I'd misplaced! :)

...instead though I found this: http://www.genopal.com/online.php

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Selection is not about millions of colors - it is about that one in a million color.

Any computer program can produce more than a million colors, that’s easy, but does it help? Color selection is about choosing the right color. GenoPal lets you start with your best guess and explore delightful suggestions around it.


It's a bit like a buffet of colours where you can choose from a selected menu of items. And if you don't like the dish of the day, you can request a special (pick a colour - RGB or hex), and see what it comes up with....and then there's slidey things as well! Bliss! :)

I do (surprise surprise) have various colour scheming apps, and as it says, on the whole, if you're not careful you do end up left with too many choices. That said, I do still like my Color Schemer Studio with it's ability to pick a colour scheme from a photo, which is useful if you've got a main image that you need to tie a colour scheme into.

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 9/5/2007 5:31:21   
there's this one too , though it's more for colour inspiration than colour generation ;)
http://www.colourlovers.com/

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 9/27/2007 19:17:53   
What a list of colours 'n' things!!??

I'm pretty sure I can't add to it, so I'll drop in some info' about a little program that I've just run into called "Agave 0.4.2"

It's made by Jonathon Jongsma ( jonathon.jongsma[at]gmail.com ) and it's released under the GPL v2 ( Or any later version should you prefer ). It's a part of the Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) OS.

Thanks for the colours links!!! :)

EDit*...........an RGB to Hex' converter as well....what a little gem!

EDit**..........http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ (These things take time to find sometimes! )

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 9/28/2007 0:43:54   
is there one for kde too?

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 9/28/2007 5:00:55   
Dave - I'm not sure: I use a "splash" of KDE 3.5 at the moment just to use the shadows and the shade feature (windows disappear leaving only title bars). I don't know if the commands are the same in KDE and Gnome, but if you type in
sudo aptitude install agave
it will just install. Alternatively, if you look in Synaptics and do a search, it will point you to the packages that need installing if it's there: 2nd Alt' : download it from the home-site.

I have noticed that there's not too much about Linux round here? I'm a Novice in both Linux and M$ but I find that if it's concerning web codes or scripts (Not sure which word to use) it makes no difference as it's all cross platform! I suppose I'll just keep "expanding" what I'm learning. :)

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 10/15/2007 15:28:20   
Well, it's been a while, so I guess it's time for a couple more colour scheming tools I found on my web travels....unfortunately I was looking for a news fader when I came across these and got a bit distracted....:)

http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/color-schemer/color-schemer.html

http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/color-schemer-v2/color-schemer-v2.html (this one's very nice - click the elements on a real live web page and change the colour combinations around!)

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 11/15/2007 18:24:01   
...and yet another delightful colour tool we have here. It's ColorBurn from those lovely chaps at Firewheel Design, creators of the best icons on the planet (see sig further details of the icons). ColorBurn's an app for the Yahoo Widgets which can do alsorts of clever things. Worth checking out.

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 11/27/2007 18:39:51   
Just incase you ever need to convert from RGB to hex, to CMYK to Pantone, and then back again..... http://web.forret.com/tools/color.asp :)

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RE: The definitive colour scheming tool list... - 3/29/2008 15:39:47   
Well as it's a while folks since I found you any colour goodies, I thought it was about time for another one! :)

http://www.colorhunter.com/

I haven't tried this one out yet, so I've no idea whether it's any good or not.

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