Best Online Color Tools for Web Design

Color is an important factor in web design. Here is a list of resources on how to choose color schemes when designing web sites:

HTML/CSS Color Charts

CSS Color Chart

I use this one often.

Web-smart Color Cube

Excellent tool that displays all 4,096 web-smart colors in a 16x16x16 cube.

HTML Color Chart

A quick reference for looking up hexadecimal HTML color codes.

Web-safe Colors

A good reference.

Web Site Color Palette Tools

Pic2color

Excellent tool that builds a color palette from an image.

Color Schemer

This online Color Schemer can give you ideas of what colors might work well together on your web site.

Colors on the Web

A useful introduction to using colors on the Web and to choosing color palettes.

GIMP Color Palettes

This page has some color palettes that you can import into the GIMP

Meyerweb Color Blender

A tool that creates midpoint colors based on two colors of your choice.

Web-safe Color Swatches

Download web-safe color swatches for your favorite programs, including the GIMP, Fireworks, Photoshop, TopStyle, BBEdit, and others.

Slayer Office Color Palette Tool

This tool helps you create a color palette based on this technique.

Visicheck Colorblindness Tool

Free tool to see what your web site and images might look like to colorblind viewers.

4096 Color Wheel

An excellent color tool that offers choices for web-safe colors, web-smart colors, and unsafe colors.

Web-safe Colorizer Tool

This tool allows you to pick a web-safe background color and see what the other web-safe colors look like on top of it as foreground text

Easy RGB

Several nice color tools.

Online Color Palette Builder

Another free online tool from wellstyled.com.

Color Harmonizer

This is an interesting tool that may be worth experimenting with.

Colourlovers

"...a place to view, rate and review some lovely colours & palettes. the idea is to create a place of color inspiration where a designer of any sort can see new and lovely colours"

Colors on the Web

Two very interesting tools. Spin the color wheel to get some color ideas.

The Flash Color Schemer

A nice Flash tool that gives ideas for color schemes.

Colorspeak Palettes

Another color tool where you can describe colors and search by description.

About Web Colors and Web Graphics

Grokking the GIMP

This page from the book Grokking the GIMP explains some web site color issues.

Color Symbolism

Sibagraphics has an interesting page on the meanings of colors in different cultures.

Color "Eyedropper" Tools

Pixie

A nice color-picker tool for Windows. If you aren't using Widows, see the Colorzilla Firefox extension below.

Colorzilla Firefox Extension

A color-picker tool that integrates with Firefox, allowing you to get hexadecimal HTML color codes from web pages. The new version of Colorzilla also has some palette tools.

Also check out this comprehensive list of color Web pages...