Ve Robin
3 min readMar 23, 2016

9 Useful Tools for Creating Material Design Colour Palettes

Choosing a right colour scheme is one of the toughest part of a designer’s job. These 9 online tools provide interesting ways of generating colour themes by allowing you to select from a range of colour schemes.

These 9 Online Colour Tools Will Help You Make Amazing Colour Palettes

The popularity of material design is because of its bold and vibrant colors. Its color design is inspired by bold hues, deep shadows, and bright highlights. If you need to generate material design colour palettes, the following 9 online tools will be helpful.

Mudcube Color Sphere

It’s a handy little resource for web-designers. It also provides a hex number for each color. You can easily choose a color scheme from your chosen shade. When you are not sure about the color scheme, you can choose it from a selection of themes from a drop-down menu.

Color Hunter

Color Hunter may not look like a useful tool in the first glance. However, it’s really useful when you are unable to find a particular color. Just choose an image and enter it in the Color Hunter, the tool will create a color palette from it.

Color

It’s a great online tool for perfectionists’ designers. If you just want to have the perfect color scheme, this is the right tool for you. Just hover your mouse across the screen to choose your right color; the site will give you that all important hex code for your project.

Spycolor

It’s a free service and you can get information about any color and color conversions such as RGB, CMYK, and many more. You can get information about complementary, split-complementary, clash, monochromatic.

Designspiration

This site generates a complete display of images from its database and displays the hex number prominently. You can even click on them individually.

ColorExplorer

ColorExplorer is the most in-depth and comprehensive available online tool on the web.It offers you a vast range of tools to design, customize and analyze your color palettes.

Colourlovers

It’s a community created around sharing and appreciation of colours, palettes and patterns. It is very close to the Pinterest type colour board. Colourlovers is a great tool if you’re a colour aficionado and you also like to share your passion.

Color Scheme Designer

This tool is very similar to Adobe Kuler. It helps generate colour themes by allowing you to select from the scheme brightness. It has a range of standard mathematical scheme methods such as mono, triad, tetrad and analogic.

COPASO

COPASO is a great tool to generate palettes. It has an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. It allows you to add notes to your palettes, upload images and enter CMYK references.

The web is replete with a whole range of tools that can help you attain colour nirvana. Though, some of them are not original as they are a basic rip-offs of the more popular or useful offerings. The tools discussed above will save your time in sorting the wheat from the chaff. So be prepared to enter into colour heaven.

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