Hail Pixel makes palette picking an interactive sport. Start by dragging your mouse around the space until you find a color that appeals to you, then start whittling down your colors by moving your mouse or arrowing through matching hues, lightness and saturation.
Spectrum approaches color palettes from the other side. Start with a color and watch as the page is populated with dozens of images that match. A perfect tool when on the hunt for imagery that matches a specific palette.
Similar to Hex invaders, The Great RGB Challenge helps you to nail RGB once and for all by matching an RGB code to its corresponding color. Mess up and you’re back to the beginning. Good luck!
Put your vision to the test with the Online Color Challenge. Your task is simple… arrange the colors in hue order. Sound easy? You may be surprised to learn where your hue discrimination is low and how you compare to your peers.
Design Seeds is candy for your eyeballs. Pairing beautiful photography with pleasing palettes, you can’t help but feel inspired while scrolling through this site. Click on a favorite color or search by theme to filter down your feed. Follow them on Instagram for an extra daily dose.
COLOURlovers is an online community for color enthusiasts. Browse palettes or create your own, then get social by commenting and “loving” eachother’s creations, following different “Lovers” and checking out the latest color trends.
If you’re tired of guessing the exact hues, lightness and saturation values of a color, you’ll be happy to meet Colllor. Enter in a Hex code for a full rundown of pure tints, shades and tones. You can also play with color mixing and find similar colors to build out your palette.
Material Palette is a basic color palette builder. Choose two colors that appeal to you and it will give you an eight color palette that delineates primary, text and accent colors. You’re then welcome to download, copy to your clipboard or share the palette on social media.
Consider yourself a color whiz? Take a break from your workday with Hex Invaders. Inspired by Space Invaders, this game takes a creative spin by challenging you to destroy the invader that matches the Hex code on the top of your screen. Bonus: it teaches you how to break down the reds, greens and blues in Hex codes fast. Enjoy!
A Color Palette Generator (courtesy of MailChimp).
Building out a website or brochure based heavily on an image? With Pictaculous, you can simply upload that picture and the app will spit out a color palette that pairs perfectly with it.
Roue chromatique | Modèles de couleurs.
Smooth out your creative workflow with the help of Adobe Color CC. As part of the Creative Cloud, you can create and save color themes and work them seamlessly into other Adobe products. The intuitive color wheel – and ability to pull colors from uploaded images – doesn’t hurt either.
Tanaguru Contrast-Finder trouve les bons contrastes de couleurs pour l'accessibilité web
find your colour scheme
CSS.coloratum is a nifty little tool that helps you:
Share colors with friends and colleagues (never have to go through describing a shade again, just give them the link!)
Check out what RGB & HSL values correspond to that color keyword you keep using
Covert HSL to RGB, because you're done with your prototype and now it has to work in IE8 too
...and much more!
an easy-to-use jQuery color picker for Twitter Bootstrap