15 Color Scheming Resources For Designers

Posted in Tools | On 18th November 2009 | 3 Comments

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Using color in design can really help achieve the designs goal, it can set mood, portray emotion and at a basic level just look pleasing to the eye.

Sometimes whilst in the design process you may suffer from designers block and be totally stuck for inspiration for the color palette you wish to use.

Here are 15 online tools that will help you remedy that issue, they allow you to extract color from photographs, generate palettes in a color family, or just randomly generate colors until you find something you like.

Color Blender

Colors Palette Generator

Colour Lovers

Colr

Color Combos

Color Palette Generator

Color Schemer Online v2

Color Scheme Designer

Daily Color Scheme

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