Color Your Website With These Seven Tools

One of the hardest aspects of creating a website is selecting the colors to use.

Often you’ll start with a logo or a photograph that is the jumping off point for the color scheme. But where do you go from there? This can be a real quandary.

Thankfully, the web abounds with tools that can help you select the right colors for your new website.

Here are seven tools that can help make the difficult job of choosing a website color scheme that much easier:

• 0to255 — a simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color; perfect for hovers, borders, gradients, and more;
• kuler — explore, create, and share color themes;
• Color Scheme Designer — generate color schemes;
• ColourLovers — a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns;
• Color Palette Generator — create a color palette to match an image;
• Color Schemer Gallery — website ready color schemes;
• Daily Color Scheme — a new color scheme every day.

What are your favorite tools for selecting website colors? Leave me a comment and a link to the website.

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