Top7 Online Color Tools

July 9th, 2009

Being a web designer you for sure love the tools that simplify and speed up your work. And I love giving you the lists of these tools, making the search process easy for you. You may remember my previous posts giving CSS tools, text editors, Firefox plugins and others. Well, today I’m going to give you the list of top 7 online color palette tools. Color palette generators are great help when you are stuck and can’t find the color solution for your new project, or you have one color and can’t find the matching ones, besides they are a great source of inspiration.
Well, here they are:

* Color Hunter

This simple online tool generates color theme from any image. You can upload an image, put in the image URL or chose the color tag.

* Colorotate

This Flash based website is a more advanced tool than the previous one. This tool has a 3D approach of creating color palettes and offers great customization options.

* Color Jack

The website suggests you to chose from existing color pallets or create your own ones using the offered tools.

* Color Explorer

This website features a huge color library, besides you can create your own palettes and use the color matching tool.

* Kuler Adobe

This is an Adobe Labs color palette generator and explorer. You can chose from the ready color palettes or create your own using the Flash-based application.

* Color Palette Generator

This is a very simple tool on DeGraeve.com that generates a color palette from any picture from the web you liked. Just put in the URL.

* Color Scheme Designer

This resource offers a range of ways to create a color scheme, very handy tool that many designers consider to be the best.

Well, this is my top7 online color tools. Do share your favorite generators in the comments below.