Free Tools for Creating Website Color Schemes
In web design process, one of the most important works is choosing the color scheme. It can be very hard for web designers but there are a number of great tools available to make it easier.
Some tools mentioned in this post will allow you to browse through a variety of color palettes or schemes, or to create and save your own color schemes, or to quickly create an effective color scheme.
1. ColorSchemer Gallery
ColorSchemer has a large library of user-created color schemes. You can browse by submission date, rating, or number of downloads, or you can search by keyword.
2. Kuler
Adobe’s Kuler includes a large library of user-submitted color schemes. You can view the color schemes online or download them to be used in Adobe Creative Suite products.
3. Sphere: Color Theory Visualizer
With Sphere you can adjust one of the colors in the scheme and the others will automatically adjust to match. You can try different types of color schemes like analogous, complementary, triadic, tetradic and more.
4. Colour Lovers
Colour Lovers currently has almost 2 million color palettes created by its users. You can browse palettes by submission date, rating, views and comments, or you can search by keyword.
5. ColoRotate
ColoRotate has a library of color schemes that you can browse, or you can create your own with their unique 3D tool. You can use it directly in Photoshop and Fireworks with the ColoRotate plugin.
Category: Web Design
