Colour Scheme Generators & Pickers
Use these tools to help you search for colours, colour schemes, and colour inspiration for your new web project
- 4096 Color Wheel - very easy to use - recommended
- Accessibility Color Wheel - colour schemes for accessilbe website design
- Color Blender - online tool for color matching & palette design
- Color Calculator - identify colour harmonies faster than with any wheel or chart
- Colordb - the colour database - excellent tool
- Color Codes Matching Chart HTML - Pantone, CMYK, RGB Hex
- Colr.org - play with colours and colour schemes
- CSS Color Chart - neutral and general colours chart
- Hex Mixer - choose and specify web-safe colours
- Magic Color 1.0 - a free colour picker utility- recommended
- Infohound Color Schemer - simple tool to help you experiment with various colour schemes
- ColorLab - easy to use, results in HEX & RGB
- Netscape Color Names - colour schemes
- Online color chart picker - provides HTML color codes (HEX, Smart & Web safe)
- Color Palette Creator - create 10 shades of a base colour
- Color Palette Generator - website colour palette that matches to colours in a key image
- Palette Man - colour palette-generation program
- Color Scheme 2 - colour wheel & scheme generator
- Color Shades - colours and Lighter Hexadecimal Codes and Swatches
- ColorToy 2.0 - flash based colour scheme generator
- Web Color Visualizer - roll over colour swatches
- Gradient Maker - create your own colour gradients - recommended
- Color Schemer Online v.2
- Color Blender - thousands of already created colour blends - recommended
- Accessibility Color Wheel - easy to use tools
Colour theory and help guides
Use these articles to learn why certain colours go together (& more importantly why some do not) in web design
- Color combinations - choosing the right colour combination is vital for any design
- Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design - online guide to colour theory
- Colour Harmony - secrets of web colour revealed
- Colour Matters - range of colour theory articles
- Color Theory - a brief tutorial
- Color Theory Overview & Tutorial - colour, creativity, code
- What Is Color? - the theory of colour and how to use it
Texture & Pattern Backgrounds
Texture and pattern swatches are perfect for both inspiration or to form backgrounds to your web designs. All of these are free to download
- COLOURlovers - colour textures, patterns and schemes
- Forest Textures - free textures & patterns for backgrounds
- Julianne's Background Textures - 50 different texture swatches
- Squidfingers Textures - 27 pages of textures & patterns
- Tile Machine - texture and pattern backgrounds
- Wallpaper Patterns - extensive patterns gallery
- brx city wallpapers - original wallpaper and backgrounds
- Texture King - free stock textures
Using Patterns and Textures
The benefits of using textures and patterns mixed with colour schemes for backgrounds
- An Introduction to Using Patterns - article
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