Colors Externals
- Article: Color
- A good article on using color on your web page.
- Article: Color Schemes
- An article by MezzoBlue on methods for selecting Color Schemes - some great ideas.
- Color Combos by WebDevelopersNotes
- More than a dozen pages of example color combos.
- Color Schemer Online
- A great tool which takes a user-defined color and spits out a large (tweakable!) palette.
- ColorCombos.com
- Includes a combo tester to view color combos, and a color library for ideas.
- ColorPic
- A downloadable application which works like an eyedropper tool that you can use anywhere on your screen.
- Colour Contrast Analyser
- A tool which uses a mathematical formula to determine the contrast between two colors.
- EasyRGB Color Harmonies
- This tool gives you twelve complimentary colors from a user-defined base color.
- Eric Meyer's Color Blender
- A very nice tool which actually allows you to save the colors as you create the palette
- RGB to Hex Color Converter
- Much easier than using a scientific calculator.
- SlayerOffice Color Palette Generator
- A useful tool which creates 10 shades of a base color at varying degrees of opacity.
- Steel Dolphin's Color Scheme Generator
- A nice flash-based color scheme generator
- Web Color Theory
- A flash-based tool for creating color palettes. It lets you drag and compare a limited number of colors.
- Web Color Visualizer
- A quick display of web-safe colors, along with their hex codes.
- WebWhirlers Color Names
- Pebble? Alpaca? A list of the named colors your browser will accept.
- WebWhirlers Color Wizard
- A great tool, written in VBS, which takes a user-defined color and spits out all kinds of complimentary colors.
- WellStyled's Color Scheme Generator
- A nice tool with many options for creating palettes.