How to Use Online Color Resources

Whether you are working on an art project, a website or some computer art, you may need some inspiration with a color scheme. This article will point you to some helpful resources.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A web browser
• An Internet connection

1. The first site of interest is Colour Lovers (see Resources below for a link). This site covers color trends and provides color palettes that you can use in your projects.

2. Adobe has a site called Kuler. Kuler is all about color palettes and provides samples or lets you play around with the color tools and create your own palette.

3. Color Combos has tools to help you select a color palette. If you see a website with a color scheme you like, Color Combos has a tool to help you figure out what that color scheme is.

4. Often designers want to derive a color palette from a photograph that will form an important design element in a project. A tool that will help you determine the colors in a photo is the Color Palette Generator from DeGraeve.

5. Palette Man has been helping people choose color schemes on the web since the very early days, and it's still a great place for color inspiration.

Resources

• Colour Lovers
• Kuler
• Color Combos
• Color Palette Generator
• Palette Man

[Alisiane]

on 9/22/2008 My sister is into a lot of the same things that you are - all of these web elements that make my head spin...lol I have to say though that in looking over your articles you've made some of these topics understandable and accessible for tech illiterate people like me! :-)