COLORS TOOLBOX: 20+ Tools For Working With Colors

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Sometimes all you need to get inspired to build a site is picking a color scheme, or even if you get stuck later in development you need some color help. We've gathered 20+ tools for helping the "color challanged" designers in our midst.

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4096 Color Wheel - Move around the color wheel and find out which hex codes for that color are "web-safe", "web-smart", and "unsafe".

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Accessibility Color Wheel - An interactive color wheel that tells you which foreground and background colors will work best together.

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Color Blender - Enter two CSS color values and it will show you the mid value for both.

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Color-Inspirator.com - Tell the site how many colors your would like to work with, click the "mix" button and receive a color palette suggestion.

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ColorsOnTheWeb.com Wizard - Enter a base color, and receive matching colors, hue, saturation and tint and shade variations.

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Color Palette Generator - Enter the URL of an image and receive a color palette that matches its main colors.

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Color Tool - Create and share color schemes that can be shown off online.

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Color Toy - Enter the RGB or Hex value of a color and receive a Flash generated bar of variations on that color.

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ColorBlender.com - Tool for color palette design and color matching, gives you the hex code as well as RGB mixture.

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ColorCombos.com - Numerous pages of pre-made color combinations to save you time trying to figure them out by trial-and-error.

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colordb - An extensive color resource that gives you more information about color than you could probably ever want to know.

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ColorJack.com - Click on the color wheel and receive information on complementary colors, also offers a Mac OSX Widget.

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ColorMixers.com - A hex color mixer for designers to easily see what colors go together, set up in a WYSIWYG format.

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Color Scheme Generator 2 - An easy to use color wheel system for designers to pick matching and contrasting colors with numerous variables.

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Colorcell - Create your own color combinations, browse others, vote on the best ones.

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COLOURlovers.com -Create and share palettes and color schemes, browse, rate, comment, share and more.

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Colr.org - Use a random Flickr image, or upload one of your own, and let the color selector help you build a color scheme from it.

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ColrPickr - Click on a color or use the slider, and this site will find images that match the colors you chose on Flickr.

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GrayBit.com - Allows you to make a grayscale version of a site to check the site's contrast.

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JRM Color Palette Generator - Upload an image and get a suggestion of a color palette to work with it.

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pic2color.com - Make a whole color pallet based off of a picture of your choosing.