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I have had the question posed a million times, a million ways. When the question about colors comes into play, I always hear an answer like, "Blue, Green and a bright Orange." However for a website that can manage to show millions of colors, being specific is important. Here are 10 tools offered free on the internet that can help you choose the right color.
10 Tools for Choosing Color
ColoRotate

As well as being a useful way to choose colors, ColoRotate looks cool and is actually fun to use. Instead of using two dimensional viewers, it presents color palettes to you in 3d and in real time.

Kuler is a community driven web app that lets your browse color palettes created by others. You can also create your own by using the color wheel, harmony rules, and color sliders.

Color Scheme Designer has been around for a while, but was just recently updated with a brand new interface and a new color scheme generating engine.

COLOURlovers provides more than just a way to find color palettes. It is also a place to network with other people to discuss color related topics, and read interesting articles about all things color. This is my favorite, it helps me to have the insight of other people, that way it is not just based on my opinion.

Copaso is COLOURlovers palette generating tool. It’s rich feature set allows you to save colors to a scratch pad, extract colors from a photo, and publish a palette for thousands of other people to see.

Color Blender let’s you select a preferred color and then it generates a six color blend based on that color. From there you can tweak each individual color.

Toucan allows you to select up to 20 colors for each palette either by using color association or from an uploaded image.

ColorMunki gives you the ability to search colors from built in libraries and using keywords.

With Color Wizard you can submit a base color and it generates color schemes based on your color’s complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations.

Color Explorer is a fairly new color palette generating tool, but boasts a well organized set of features. |