More Cool Tools - Color Scheme Generators

My favorite color scheme generator is Color Schemer (sample above)  http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html.  This has been around for some time, the color schemes are beautiful, vibrant and truly inspiring.  Color Schemer has a blog too.  Their Color Schemer Studio application (~$50) has lots of cool features.  You can see a quick demo at http://www.colorschemer.com/overview_viewlet_swf.html.

Here's another fun tool to play with - Color Hunter http://www.colorhunter.com/.  This website derives a color scheme from any photo.  You can used theirs, upload your own, or enter the URL of a photo on a website.  If you are uploading an image, make sure to resize it first.  Large files just don't work.  I resized to 600 pixels wide and it worked just fine.  You can toggle between vibrant and dull versions of the same palette.  I uploaded photos of recent projects and our new kitten Matilda.  Check out the "related tags" section towards the bottom of the page for more interesting color palettes.  Buddhist and Piano yielded interesting results.   The results from this tool are not the very best available, but it is interesting and useful nonetheless.  I think this could be very helpful in working through a creative block.   

Also at wellstyled.com.  http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html This color scheme generator lets you play with color theory more.  There are options for monochromatic, complimentary  (they call it contrast), triad, tetrad, and analogous color schemes.  There are some interesting options for adjusting for various degrees and types of colorblindness.

Color toy 2.0 http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/ is also quite interesting.  Playing with numbers in your work?  Try dropping some of those numbers into this tool and see what happens.  Enter your birth date, anniversary, or other significant date in the hex field, or break the date up randomly into the RBG fields.  I tried my birthday this way R=120 G=81 B=957.  9995 also gave me a beautiful color scheme.

And one last one - Color Wizard http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp.  I love the randomizer.  All the buttons are fun to play with.  I tried my model year - 1957 with the split  complimentary option for fun results.  Randomizing from there was even better!

Have fun!  Make something beautiful today!