Share Your Color Schemes
By Mitch “Colorful” Keeler
I love finding web sites that are all about the sharing and inspiration. Maybe I have an inter-hippy in me somewhere that wants peace, love and happiness. Adobe, those wonderful people who brought you such things as Photoshop, have a new color scheme sharing site that is worth checking out.
Kuler is a site based around sharing various color schemes that look good together. You can browse by the newest, most popular, highest rated or randomly if you wish. This would be a great resource to keep in hand if you were designing a new page and didn’t have any idea which colors you wanted to use yet.
The only down side is they don’t make it very easy to find the HTML color equivalent. If you have Firefox though, you can use an add-on such as ColorZilla to handle that side of things.
It might not be a total replacement for other online color tools such as:
However, it never hurts to have a second or third colorful opinion.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:28 am
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