Need a color? Check out these online tools.
Often clients come to us with new ideas that have no set colors, it is our job to help you (the client) find the colors that work. We might get this from a variety of places, a photo you give us, your business card even your product package.
Then we have to make sure that the color we picked works with other colors, and thats where the following tools come in handy..
ColorHexa
ColorHexa is one of my most used tools, as a developer not only does it tell me the Hexadecimal value of the color I am asking about, but it gives me a great amount of data about that color. Including color schemes that will work great with it.
ColorExplorer
ColorExplorer is pretty neat, it allows you to create and save and even import into Adobe products custom color palette. It has a lot of advanced tool that can come in handy even Pre loaded Color Libraries. In fact it even has tools that will help you ensure your site meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines if you need to do that.
Color Scheme Designer
Design your own color scheme with the Color Scheme Designer. Rotate and adjust the color wheel to select your base color, then see automatically generated values based on your palette type.
Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
Gradients May be nearly dead but if you really want the fading style of the mid 2000’s and you want to do it in CSS3 this is the tool for you! CSS3 gradients are really very difficult to write out in code. Not only do you need to know the different color values, you also need to add the various vendor prefixes to get it working across multiple browsers. The Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator makes it easy by giving you a Photoshop-esque interface to set up your gradient, then gives you the code to copy/paste. Yay paste!
I use http://PaletteGenerator.com It allows you to upload a photo, select the area you want to focus on, then gives you not only the colors, but also the amounts of each used in that selection in a handy pie chart.
Oh thats a neat one, Thank you for sharing 🙂