Colour Schemes

I have spent this week struggling with colour schemes for my blog.

I found deciding on a colour scheme to be an incredibly frustrating process, and what I finally settled on was fairly safe but not very original or exciting either. However here are a few of the tools that I used to help me locate colours, palettes and inspiration, hopefully this can be useful to you too.

Adobe Kulur

My favorite because of the great community. A lot of really good palettes here and plenty of things to help you designing. Kulur refers to both the website and the AIR application which you can download here.

The AIR application has a useful feature of letting you drag schemes separately onto your desktop to compare various palettes. Once you have decided you can copy the RGB values straight onto the clipboard.

Colour Browser

Another AIR application, this one doesn’t need to be connected to the Internet and is useful as a desktop tool for storing various palettes and schemes. This tool is for creating your own palettes, not finding other peoples and is pretty simple but useful.

Color Scheme Generator 2

A color wheel you can use to create a palette from, has a number of options such as pastel, dark pastel, contrast pale etc.

ColorSchemer ColorPix

ColorPix is great. Install it and you can use it to find out what color anything on your screen is. Perfect for stealing someone else’s great scheme or creating variations. If used in conjunction with the Colour Schemer Gallery then you can really find some great ideas.

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3 Responses to “Colour Schemes”

1. Tim says:

   June 23, 2008 at 11:51 pm

   I’ve tried several tools to create color schemes, and my favorite one is colortoy (http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/).

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2. mark says:

   June 24, 2008 at 1:15 pm

   I’m a fan of Color Schemer
   http://www.colorschemer.com/studio_info.php

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3. Kevin says:

   June 24, 2008 at 9:00 pm

   I have found adobe kulur to be very helpful in the past. Especially if you are doing things that are not necessarily going to end up online.

   On a side note, the color scheme you landed on is very nice.

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