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July 14, 2009 in Freebies, Showcases by Designussion

Using color in web design has seperated those average designs to those that make viewers come back for more. As web designer, there are many diffrent things that you should take into account when choosing colors for your design. Having the appropriate colors is very important for readability along side ensuring that the colors you select are viewable by persons with vision deficiencies such as color blindness which is a good practice to follow when thinking about web accessibility.

Color Scheme Designer

Rapidly increased precision and color space conversions with this incredible color tool.

Contrast -A

This application allows users to experiment with color combinations, examine them under the aspect of accessibility guidelines and to create custom color palettes.

Check My Colours

A tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits.

Gray Bit

GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceived contrast.

Kuler

Explore, create and share colour themes. The perfect web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project.

Color Palette Generator

Generate a color palette from a picture. Enter the URL of an image you like and in seconds you will have a fully functional palette to work with.

Colour Lovers

A color and design community for inspiration.

4096 color wheel

A colour wheel tool supporting 16,777,216 hexadecimal colors.

Color Schemer

ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals.

Colr.org

A jungle gym for software ideas.