10 Online Tools for Designers to Choose the Correct Color Scheming

Regardless of what kind of website design you are doing, you will find yourself contemplating on using colors to make your design a stand out and highly attractive. The color effects of a web design are important that is why designers find it essential to be using tools that will make their job easier and more consistent when defining the color scheme to use in their designs. Your color choices should be exercised carefully as your chosen colors will have a significant impact on your overall web design. While it may sound easy to make a color selection, designers still find the need of using useful online tools to aid them in making a perfect color scheme. Here are 10 online tools that could help designers in choosing the most appropriate color schemes for their artwork.

1. Kuler

Kuler is a great online tool that designers could use from Adobe that provides them with many selections of color palettes to choose from. You can also be as creative as you can be by creating your own color palettes using the color wheel, color sliders and the harmony rules features. Kuler is a community driven community that you can download or use directly when using Adobe software like the Illustrator or Photoshop.
 
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2. ColourLovers

This online tool provides you the opportunity to connect with other designers. By joining this online community, you will have access to more than a million of color palettes that are submitted by professional designers that you can browse upon and use. You can also exchange brilliant ideas within the community everything about colors.
 
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3. Color Scheme Designer

You are at the liberty of creating your own color combination from the color wheel by selecting your own color scheme preference from mono, triad, complement, accented analogic, tetrad or analogic. Simply choose the color combination that you like and copy the code to use them on your website.
 
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4. Color Schemer

This offers you a professional color application by choosing from the tool’s dynamic color wheel. You can harmonize the color scheme that you want. If you are undecided, you can let the tool choose the most ideal color scheme for your website.
 
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5. ColorBlender

The tool comes with a color picker option to select the color scheme that you like. You can blend colors and then tweak the color blends by editing them until you find the one you like best. Create an account with ColorBlender in order to have the ability to save the color blends of your liking.
 
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6. Contrast A

This online tool helps identify the color combinations with the proper contrast and displays the color luminance ratio. It also provides results based on the older Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0) and adheres to the latest WCAG 2.0 guidelines. It identifies the difference in the color and brightness of the color schemes that you select.
 
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7. Color Munki

This online tool provides a color scheme solution among designers who have a specific or particular color in mind. You can search for the color of your choice using keywords, create your own color schemes and start designing your digital workflows.
 
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8. Color Wizard

Not only can you find the ideal color scheme that you need but you can also submit your own base color to allow the tool to generate the color scheme that would be complementary to your base color. It also generates analogous colors, split complementary colors and other color variations with sets of hues, tint or shade and color saturation.
 
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9. Copaso

This is a color palette generating tool that allows its users to publish a palette to share with other users, to save your own choice of colors to a scratch pad or to extract the color from an image. It also comes with a basic color palette tool if you find the Copaso color generating tool overwhelming to use.
 
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10. ColoRotate

This is an online tool that you can use even with an iPad. An iPad application is available to allow designers to play with its different color schemes, even while on the go. There are a great collection of colors to browse upon and you can even create your own using its 3D color wheel.
 
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