Color pick­ers — dif­fer­ent meth­ods of choos­ing a color scheme

I don’t have a prob­lem with com­ing up with a color scheme because I use tools like adobe kuler which you can whip out color schemes in a mat­ter of sec­onds. Hav­ing the right color scheme is a very impor­tant part of the design process, and pick­ing a color scheme can be prob­lem­atic for most design­ers, if you have prob­lems I sug­gest you take a look at the picker color and color pick­ers and all the other great color resources I have included within this web post.

Get inspired use col­ors from pre-existing mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als and images

You can find color schemes just about any­where, the most pop­u­lar way graphic design­ers and web design­ers get schemes is from pre-existing mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als and images. You can eas­ily rip estab­lished color schemes from an exist­ing web­site or from other mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als. I like to cre­ate my color schemes from scratch, but if you are hav­ing trou­ble com­ing up with a scheme, try using an exist­ing scheme and just change the shad­ing. It’s really up to you, you must try and develop your own sense of style and don’t be afraid to use a lot of color. I am big on color if you have ever seen my work; I use a lot of bright colors.

Online Color Palette & Color pick­ing Resources

there are a num­ber of web­sites and online tools avail­able for select­ing color palettes. Many of these sites allow users to upload color palettes that they have put together, and the rest of us ben­e­fit by being able to browse through those that have been uploaded. Most of these sites allow you to search or sort the color schemes by a par­tic­u­lar hue or by key­word, which can be help­ful if you have one color that you want to use but you are look­ing for oth­ers to use with it.

Here is a color resource list where you can get color palettes, pick­ers, color wheels, color gen­er­a­tors, RGB, CMYK, hex color, and so much more.

Hex color chart

W3c Color guide

Color Scheme Generator

Acces­si­bil­ity color wheel

Pho­to­shop like Javascript color picker

Adobe Kuler

Color Toy

Col­or­Suckr

Online color chart picker

Online Pan­tone

Col­or­Gen­er­a­tor

4096 Color Wheel

Color rotate

COLOURlovers

Col­or­Jack

Behr

CSS Color Chart

Name that color

col­or­blender

Col­or­Blend­ing

Col­or­com­bos

Pic2Color

Copaso

Tou­can

Col­or­Munki

The Color Wizard

Color Explorer

Pic­tac­u­lous

I Like Your Colors

Here is a list of some resources regard­ing the psy­chol­ogy of col­ors, also I have listed some inter­est­ing sites in regards to color schemes and color the­ory in general.

Color Sym­bol­ism and Psychology

Color Psy­chol­ogy in Online Marketing

The Mean­ing of Colours

Color Psy­chol­ogy

See Color The­ory in Action

Make an impact with your color scheme

Css drive image to color palette generator

Every­thing you always wanted to know about color

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