You have a blog or a web site, and you want to give it an original ambiance, but you need inspiration for searching colors for its graphic charter.
Here some free tools that will help you to direct your blog or your site, but also to make nice creations with
harmonious colors. Come on, begin with some communities websites :
COLOURLovers is a community website which gives many colors, color palettes and patterns. Each user can suggest his own creations, share them with the community, and also discover and appreciate those of others. It's a veritable library of colors !
In the same style, there is
colorbe to share or search color palettes. Using the search engine by tags or the most popular palettes, you can find colors of your dreams. Moreover, you can see a preview of each palette on
MySpace,
Hi5,
Blogger or
Friendster.
Kuler is a tool suggested by Adobe that requires Flash Player. This collaborative library of color palettes allows you
to explore, create and share color themes. For more information about kuler, you can visit
this page.
Color Jackis an online generator of color scheme generator, released in JavaScript, which suggests you many color palettes in order to help you
matching colors with the main color of your design.
ColorBlender, is an online tool for color matching and palette design.
There are many others tools, such as
colorcombos,
Color Palette Generator,
colr.org,
color hunter... and
mooColorFinder, an utility to find the colors used by your favorite website.
So, you have understood, for find colors for your graphics creations, you have many choices, and many color palettes can be downloaded in several formats (Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS, RGB...)
Have a nice trip through these blends of colors !