Multicolr Search Lab
Found via Kottke, Multicor Search Lab lets you search through Flickr's Creative Commons images by color. Nice!
mooColorFinder retrieves any websites color scheme
mooColorFinder is a tool to extract any color information from any website via their CSS files (inline or linked).
mooColorFinder - retrieve all website colors
COPASO: Color Palette Tool from ColourLovers
COPASO is a color palette tool to help you create custom colour schemes. Create your own palette with the color tools or use the photo tool to extract colors from an image. When you're cone, save your palettes to a private folder or download them to your local computer. Nice tool, worth a bookmark.
COPASO | Pro Color Palette Software from COLOURlovers
What Its Color: find primary and complementary colors from an image
Whats Its Color: An image coloring solution feedback utility will evaluate an image and return the image's primary and complementary dominant colors. It will also tell you the top ten visually unique colors in the image.
This is a handy utility, especially for designs that are being made around an image.
Colour Lovers introduces Patterns
Colour fan site COLOURlovers has introduced Colour Patterns. Color Design Blog / Patterns - More Ways to Play with Color. If you're not creative or in a rush, just browse patterns that others have made.
We knew that you loved finding great colors and arranging them in color palettes… so we guessed that you might want something to do with those palettes (Seeing as you’ve already created more than 3,400 different patterns in 2 days, I think we guessed right). We launched with just a couple dozen patterns to color but hope to add hundreds more over time.
And the very cool part, you can create your own pattern!
Color Hunter: Generate Color Palettes from Images and More
Color Hunter is a color palette generator tool that lets you create or find color palettes from an image url, entering a keyword tag or by entering a hex code. Enter your own information or browse color palettes from other users. Along similar lines, check out the basic Color Palette Generator Tool, which offers up both a dull and vibrant color scheme from images.
Nice color tools, worth bookmarking.
Name that Color
There are a ton of color tools out there but there's something fun about adding color names in to the mix. Name that Color.
"Being a typical guy, I have no clue what the colors Lavender and Mauve look like. You can show me Indigo and I won't know if it's more like Violet or Purple. So I made this little app where you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color."
Don't miss the color drop-down box which lists 1500+ colors.
Find the Perfect Colors for your Website
Find the Perfect Colors for Your Website is a collection of color-related links from the psychology of color, how to choose them and tools for working with color and more.
Lotsa color links worth a look see.
Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List
The colour lovers over at Colour Lovers have put together a great color collection with the Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List by COLOURlovers.
Definitely worth a bookmark for some colour codes and inspiration.
18 Color Palettes from Butterflies
I have really been enjoying colour lovers blog postings lately, where they explore different sources of inspiration for colour palettes.
Their latest is no exception, offering up a collection of 18 beautiful butterflies and their color palettes.
Color & Design Blog / Colorful Beauty in Nature: Butterflies by COLOURlovers.
Palette Grabber: Firefox Extension
Palette Grabber is a Firefox extension that grabs the color palette of any web page and then exports it for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP or Flash.
A handy tool and a worthy addition to your Firefox add-ons.
Colorschemes.org: all thing color
Color Schemes, Color Palettes, Color Theory - a really big list of all things color - online color tools, downloadable color scheme software, techniques and color reference and more.
Favicon Generator
Dynamic Drive- FavIcon Generator will create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site from any gif, jpg, png or bmp image. The generator supports transparency, as well.
Optionally, you can merge your favicon with a 32x32 or 48x48 desktop or XP icon.
Fixing PHB color mismatch on the web: an easy fix
polar bear lamps: PNG color mismatch on the web: an easy fix - how to correct the problem with colors in a PNG image not matching with other images (such as jpg) or hex color values.
This fix uses Photoshop CS2 but may work as well with earlier Photoshop versions.
Swatchify: The positively polychromatic palette
swatchify.com | Your brilliant color palette - a nifty new (to me at least) color tool to add to your collection (you do have a collection, don't you? :)
Complete Color Matching Guide
Complete Color Matching Guide - a lot of links to a lot of color articles and tools, including color basics, psychology and meaning of colors, color science, color schemes and online and desktop color tools.
Definitely an "all things color" bookmark.
Grammy Award Winning Album Color Pallettes
All about colour site, COLOURlovers has a fun post on their blog pulling out the colour pallettes from the 2007 Grammy Award winning album covers. A great way to get some fresh colour inspiration.
COLOURlovers :: Grammy Award Winning Album Colors - 2007
10 color tools to help you select a color pallette
10 Tools to help you select a Web 2.0 Color Palette cause you can never have too many color tool bookmarks!
genopal: for eye-pleasing colors
GenoPal Online is an online tool for creating color palettes, with both a free and a pro version available.
The free version features over 30 ready-made schemes and there is no download or registration required to use it. Using the sliders, eye dropper or presets as a starting point, it is easy to create some really nice looking color schemes. Clicking on any color square will also open up a "fine tuning" option as well that will allow you to cycle through various color options around your chosen color.
A nice tool and worth a place in the design toolbox.
Photoshop Color Block
"I have no color sense. What-so-ever. Usually, when it comes to having different colors on a given layout, I just slap white and black layers over them set the blending mode to either Overlay or Soft Light in Photoshop. So I made the above PSD for myself ..."
And now he's offering it up for other color pallette challenged folks. Head on over to My Photoshop Color Block to check it out and download.
500 colours with names, hex and RGB values
Colour lovers take note! 500 Named Colours with rgb and hex values is a nice and neat display of colour chips, with the corresponding colour name, hex, RGB and Access values.
kuler: new color tool from Adobe
kuler is a brand new color tool from Adobe Labs that helps you explore, create and share color themes for web, design or other creative work. You can use kuler as an online application or you can download themes to use with Adobe applications.
Definitely worth checking out. It's kule.
On Color: round-up of tools for chosing colors
On Color is a great round-up of a variety of tools that are available for chosing colors and color palettes, both free and commercial tools. I particularly like the number of screenshots included along with the commentary.
A worthwhile read.
Instant Color Schemes from words
Instant Color Schemes takes a unique approach to generating color schemes. You just type in a descriptive word (or words), such as "blue sky" and a color scheme is generated.
How does it work? Instant Color Schemes takes 5 related images from Yahoo Image Search and then shows the most prominent 6 colors from each image.
You can chose from a number of suggested words or enter your own. Some words work better than others. The scheme illustrated above is from the scheme 'Antarctica', but there's no #FFFFFF in it at all, which probably would be the obvious color to be returned. (Maybe they screen out white :)
A fun tool to play with though for color inspiration and the use of words might help focus colors based on the tone or mood you're going for.
I Like Your Colors Color Tool
I Like Your Colors is a color tool that grabs the color scheme from any url that you specify.
It works pretty well, with the exception that it won't grab colors from images, only from CSS (background colors, fonts etc). That said though, it's a lot easier than rooting around someone's CSS file yourself to find out exactly what that gorgeous shade of red is.
Complementary Color Palette Creator
Slayeroffice color palette creator is not new. It's been around probably a couple of years. It's a great tool, a worthy bookmark and worth re-visiting if you've never seen it or have forgotten about it.
The Color Palette Creator "will create 10 shades of the base color, located top-left, at varying degrees of opacity. The top row emulates opacity over a white background, the bottom over black (or colors of your choosing as of v1.4)."
Color Palette Generator
Color Palette Generator will create a color palette from any online image. A great way to get a unique and fresh color palette.
ColorJack: Cool Color Scheme Tool
ColorJack: Studio (beta) is the coolest color tool I have come across in ages. Be sure to check out the Functions menu and have some fun with that too!
Daily Color Scheme Public Beta Opens
Daily Color Scheme BETA- Your every-day color resource, we bring you daily-fresh colorschemes - is just opening up a public beta, so head on over and check out all the pretty colour!
Each scheme can be downloaded to be used in your favorite design program (photoshop, illustrator, css etc.)
High security password generator
Ultra High Security Password Generator - for those times when you absolutely, positively need it to be secure!
ColorWhore
ColorWhore - for all your color picking needs!
Color Schemes on Delicious
Hah! People actually bookmark colour schemes on delicious. Check them out
Color Wheel
Color Wheel - ver 2.0.1 - spin the color wheel and create a pallette. For all you color scheme needs.
Color Scheme Exercise
Color scheme challenged? The Color Scheme Exercise might be just what's needed. Exercise once a week to strengthen your color scheme skills.
Color Tool 2.0.1 Alpha
Color Tool 2.0.1 Alpha - nice color pallette tool with a nice set of features. I could play with this all day!
Generate a Color Palette from a Photo
Color Palette Generator - from any photo. Just upload your image and a complete color palette will be gerated from the colors in the photo. Hover over the generated colors to see/grab the various Hex color codes.
ColorCombos
ColorCombos.com - Web Color Combinations Tool and Library - have I posted this already? Ah well, it's worth another. A must-bookimark site for any colour combo lover.
500+ Colours
500 Named Colours with rgb and hex values - I think I've posted something similar to this before but this one is bigger ... and prettier. A handy, dandy bookmark!
Color Scheme
Steel dolphin Creative - Color Scheme tool - reminds me a lot of ColorImpact. Looks like a good tool and free to use.
Colourmod
ColourMod DHTML Colour Picker - nice looking colour tool. With a 'u' too.
100 Random Colors
100 Random Colors - Need a Color? - break your creative color block by having some color suggestions served up for you.
Color Palette Creator
Based on the technique Andy Clarke described recently, the color palette creator is a very cool method for setting out a color scheme for a site.
ColorCache
ColorCache Color Picker - A Color Picker and Palette Management Tool [via Geekgrrl]
ColorMatch Remix
An update for a color classic - ColorMatch Remix. Some nice predefined themes and the ability to make your own and export a swatch file to Illustrator or Photoshop. [via WebGraphics]
Color Picker Round-up
Web Graphics is back and today featuring a huge round-up of Color Pickers. If you've been looking for one, this is an excellent place to start!
4096 Color Wheel
4096 Color Wheel is a nice little color tool and free to down load to your own computer and use as a handy offline tool too!
Colour and Font Tools
Font Browser will display a listing of the fonts you have installed and provide a preview of them at different text sizes. Handy tool and I like that it's online. [via Chris Pirillo]
Quick Color - another great online colour resource. [via Zeldman]
Eye Dropper
Nice, freeware, desktop colour-grabbing utility - Eye Dropper. From the author "EyeDropper excels at its primary task: picking the colour value from any pixel of the screen." It can deliver it up in RGB, HEX or CMYK as well.
Color Blender
Spotted at GeekGrrl's, the Color Blender. You enter a starting hex and and ending one and then how many shades in between you'd like and it generates them for you. I love it!
All about Color
handprint : color ... or as I would spell it ... colour :)
Colour Pickers
I love colour. I love playing with colour. I love putting colours together. Here are a few of my favourite places to play with colour:
Color-Match 5K
Nebulus Colour
Colours on the Web
Easy RGB
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