Best Color Palettes
Everything you wanted to know about palettes but you were too afraid to ask.
It’s not only great ideas and well executed projects that makes you
a professional designer. What also matters is the efficiency in creating
new things. Using tools for designers can save your precious time and focus
on what’s most important — designing. On the internet you will find a huge number of pages, extensions and programs to facilitate your work. But hey, it’s a veritable jungle! How do you find yourself in all this?
In a series of posts about useful tools for designers (and not only!)
we would like to help you out with choosing the best ones. The first to go are color palettes recommended by Order Group team. The list will be updated so stay tuned!
Colourco
Very cool site that allows you to create your own color palettes and choose one of the color harmony scheme: monochromatic, complementary, triad etc. At any time you can add or remove each swatch from the resulting palette.
Material Palette
Selecting two colors results in creating a color palette ready for download. Click on the color from the palette to automatically copy the Hex color and paste it into any graphic design software.
Paletton
In Paletton you can create color palettes or use presets. You can then visualize your palette in few different ways (there’s a website visualization, although it looks quite modest)
Adobe Color (Kuler)
Cool app from Adobe, through which you can get the colors from any image. Huge library of ready-made presets. You can also create countless color themes that are automatically stored in the libraries of Creative Cloud, which enables their usage in other applications as well as sharing. Drawback? Kuler often hangs.
Coolors
Coolors allows you to create your own color palettes and export to a file. You can also view and export existing presets.
Color Hailpixel
Swatch you doing? Store chosen colors by clicking on it. Another clicks add more colors to your palette. You can save them in HSL, RGB and HEX.
Coleure
Flip your favorite colors to the clipboard on the right. Colors can be freely mixed or compared with others.
Spectrum
Quite extensive application for Mac having lot of fans. It enables you to do couple of things. First you can create new pallets and tag them. You can also paste them directly to the code, and similar to Adobe Kuler — download colors from any image. You can use one of color harmony schemes (triad, tetrad, complementary etc.) and finally visualize ready palettes in different ways. Worth checking out!
Design Seeds
On this website you can find ready-made palettes drawn from photos.
Color Calculator
On this page you can create your own palettes based on color harmony.
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