How to Create Better Color Schemes for your Website
Trent Blizzard | 27 April 2009 | 2 Reviews »
OK, I admit it. I am color challenged. I know great color when I see it, but am not confident in my own abilities to pick colors. Recently I have been using online color tools to find new and better color schemes.
Kuler by Adobe is a handy tool that lets you choose different colors to base your palettes on:
to create color palettes like these:
Another similar program that I like even better is Color Scheme Designer. It has a slick color selector and shows off the colors intuitively:
You can take your palette and see what it would look like on a website too:
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April 30th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Trent, I’ve tried both the Kuler and colorschemedesigner. However, I preferred the latter one, as I think it has better color control and maneuvering than the Kuler!
October 7th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
http://www.colourlovers.com/ has lots of color palettes available to check out.