Dealing with colors
August 21, 2003
Several tools to help the web developer in color scheming and color management.
- Iconico’s Color Picker is a free Windows application that helps you pick colors and save them to your swatch. Very good for picking colors from sites and pictures. My only grouse is that it doesn’t allow you to save your swatch.
- Color Schemer helps to create a color scheme when given a particular color. The resulting schemes don’t always work though.
- Color Blender does as its name suggests - it blends 2 colors into 1. The results can surprise you - you may just find your new favorite color with some experimentation.
- ColorChip is a PHP class that, given a single color, produces the complementary color, nearby hues, a light to dark version of the color, and more. You have to try it to be impressed.
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Those are some pretty nice apps.
A couple more you might like:
ColorMatch 5K: a very clever JavaScript/HTML app that generates sets of color combinations around a color of your choosing, all done in under five kilobytes of code. Definately worth a look. Part of the 5K website competition, I think.
Korax ColourDrop: Similar to Iconico’s Color Picker but in my opinion a better choice due to some subtle features. You can save your swatches too. (Note: this is a direct link to the installation file…it seems Korax still hosts ColourDrop on their site, but they don’t really have a page dedicated to the app).
Posted by: Roshambo on August 21, 2003 11pm