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| Color Scheme Generator 1 |
Contrasts with two or more colours |
Monochromatic, base plus complement, split complements, base plus neighbours, and neighbours plus complements; can see how people with vision problems see the colours |
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Color Scheme Generator 2 |
Contrasts with two or more colours |
Monochromatic, contrasts, triads, tetrads, analogic; can see how people with vision problems see the colours |
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Color Schemer Online |
Shows 16 colours that work together at a time |
Can click on the palette or enter an RGB or hex number to select a starting color, and lighten and darken the scheme |
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Easy RGB |
Enter an RGB number and a 13-colour palette is produced |
Has other colour tools, mainly for people matching or co-ordinating non-web colours |
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Color Palette Creator |
"...this small app will take a base color in hex format and create a palette of 10 shades of that color for you." |
Enter the hex numbers for the base colour and top and bottom rows, and a 10-colour palette is produced |
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Colormixers |
Select the primary colour with sliders or by entering RGB values or hex numbers, and the program generates nine complementary colours |
Can also choose pre-defined colour themes from numerous base colours |
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Dulux Colour Co-ordinator |
A tool for selecting colours to go with furniture in your home, but it can be used to select web colours as well (except that it doesn't provide hex or RGB numbers) |
Select a furniture item and then the colour family and colour that you want to co-ordinate with. Six-colour toning, harmonizing, and contrasting themes will be produced. |
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ColorMatch 5K |
"This utility will help you select a matching six-color palette for your website." |
Define the primary colour using shades of red, green, and blue, and a six-colour matching palette is displayed |
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Two4u's Color Compose Engine |
Click on colours to see combinations of background colour, text, and links |
Colours, hex numbers, and RGB numbers appear on the page after you select the colours |
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Color Blender |
Choose two colours, hex numbers, or RGB number sets, and the tool will provide the gradients between them |
"The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors." |
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Text gradient tool |
Can get the HTML code to change the colour gradient of the word or phrase. |
Enter a word or phrase and the RGB for the start and finish colour of the gradient |
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Web Design References: Color |
Dozens of articles about colour and web design |
Tutorials, theory and models, comprehensive sites, colour contrast, more articles |
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Psychology Color Marketing |
"Color is a powerful means of setting emotion, which is the real driving force behind decision making." |
Light versus dark, saturated colours, the psychology of blue and of hot colours, shades of green, mixing screen colours, texture and colour, first impressions |
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Color and E-Commerce |
"Color must function successfully on several levels simultaneously." |
Accuracy via technology, choosing the most appropriate colours, directing the viewer to information in sequential order, and the use of colour harmony principles |
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Computer Color Matters |
How computers see colour (a long, technical article) |
What is gamma, is your computer colour blind, how to improve your computer colours, tips for Windows from a pro, web-safe colours |
