27 Color Tools and Resource for Choosing the Right Color Palette

Posted by Allen Ray in Design, Featured Articles, Tools on Jul 27th, 2009 | 16 responses

Color plays a very important role in communicating a design and how that design is perceived by the user. Thats why you need the pick the right color palatte for your design work. As a designer, there are many different things that you should take into account when choosing colors for your design.

Below are 27 color Tools and Resources for Designers.

1. Color Scheme Designer -

2. Check My Color

3 Gray Bit

4 Contrast-A: Find Accessible Color Combinations

5 Kuler

6 Color Palette Generator

7 Color Lovers

8 4096 Color Wheel Versions

9 Color Schemer

10 ColoRotate

11 ColourLovers Copaso

12 Color Blender

13 Color Explorer

14 Colors on the Web – Color Wizard

15 Color Munki

16 Online color Palette Creator – Aviary Toucan

17 Easy RGB

18 Color Jack


19 Daily Color Scheme

20  Colr

21 Color hunter

22 Color Mixers

23 Color Palette Generator

24 FireWheel Design color burn

25 Color Mod

26 ColorZilla For Firefox

27  Color fields Colr Pickr

While compiling this useful color resources it’s always a possibility that I missed some other tools and resources. Feel free to share it with us in the comments.

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16 Responses to “27 Color Tools and Resource for Choosing the Right Color Palette”

  1. Rafi says:
    July 27, 2009 at 2:23 pm
    hey thomson, this is an excellent collection of color palette resources. I will bookmark this list. Thanks for sharing.
  2. joyoge designers' bookmark says:
    August 1, 2009 at 8:54 am
    useful color tools, thanks for the list..
  3. Terrance says:
    August 2, 2009 at 2:54 am
    Hi, I have complied a list of great colour tools and generators too at
    http://www.onextrapixel.com/2009/06/16/40-useful-color-tools-color-palette-color-scheme-background-generators/
  4. BlindAcreMedia says:
    October 1, 2009 at 2:34 pm
    I have been looking for a tool like ‘Check My Colours’ for some time not. Great tool.
  5. designfollow says:
    October 23, 2009 at 6:16 am
    thanks for thes links.
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  7. Brett Widmann says:
    June 27, 2010 at 1:31 pm
    A great collection of tools for any designer in need of color assistance and/or inspiration!
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  15. Ozgur says:
    December 16, 2010 at 5:22 am
    Hi,

    as an alternative i’ve created http://www.pics2colors.com where users can grab colors from online or uploaded image sources. Pics2colors can store color palettes of images from flickr for future use. Users can download the palettes in Photoshop color swatch (.aco) or Cascading style sheets (.css) formats .

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