15 Hand Picked Color Palette and Color Scheme Generators

When it comes to online color palette and color scheme generators, the choice can be hard, as there are many tools out there that offer such functionality. At one point, I was tempted to list the 50+ generators that I know about, but then thought, this isn’t about making another "ultimate" list, what matters most are the tools that offer the functionalities required to unleash your creative juices.

Color is the most significant factor that affects our mood and perception of any visual element, and making the right choice of a color combination is considered a priority, regardless where it will be used. This roundup is about the online tools that will help you accomplish that, 15 to be exact, packed with features to make the process of generating color palettes, schemes, and themes a smooth, pleasant, and creative experience.

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Helpful Resources

• Color scheme – From Wikipedia
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• Color blindness – From Wikipedia
• Color Vision – A color deficiency simulator
• Online Color blind Selftest – From Tjshome
• Tools to check accessibility issues – From etre

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   May 19th, 2009 at 5:14 am

   Excellent collection. Good job !
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   mildfuzz
   May 19th, 2009 at 6:28 am

   great set
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   Kim
   May 19th, 2009 at 6:43 am

   Wow very useful collection!!!
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   May 19th, 2009 at 7:06 am

   @Danh @mildfuzz @Kim

   Thanks! Glad you guys liked it.
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    Will Marple
    May 19th, 2009 at 8:42 am

    This is not a web based app but I like color schemer.

    http://www.colorschemer.com/
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    Michael Douma
    May 19th, 2009 at 9:37 am

    Thanks for including ColoRotate in this great list! Our key innovation is that the picker is 3D. Based on feedback, we have a few small improvements coming soon, including a full-screen view of your palettes.
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    May 19th, 2009 at 11:30 am

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    May 20th, 2009 at 12:53 am

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    hugo
    May 21st, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Quick question:

    Is there any of these that match pantone coated colors with closest RGB or Uncoated for that matter.

    I know Colormunki does pantone geo. But It would be cool to find a fully flexiable color generator that take that stuff in account.

    I know monitor varry… but if you new that one color you used on a bc could be match across all mediums….
18. 

    Webmasterish
    May 21st, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Hi hugo,

    Interesting feature if it’s available.

    Until this is answered you may wanna check the Color Conversion Tool by ColorExplorer.com.
19. 

    Kim Jensen
    May 21st, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Hi Hugo,

    I actually had this feature on ColorExplorer until PANTONE approached me asking for it to be removed. They find that the use of PANTONE colors names violates their trademarks.

    If you have Adobe Photoshop you actually have that function built-in there;

    1) Open the color picker
    2) Click the Color Libraries button
    3) Choose the appropriate PANTONE color set in the dropdown menu
    4) Click the PANTONE color number
    5) Click the Picker button – and there you have the closest RGB color

    Regards,
    Kim Jensen // ColorExplorer.com
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    LOVE IT!!! Has the grab-colors-from-photo, mix-these-two-colors-together, make-this-color-ligher, keep-track-of-my-favorite-colors, and save-palette-for-Photoshop functionality that I couldn’t live without!
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    September 18th, 2010 at 6:08 pm

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    steroizi
    November 8th, 2010 at 3:03 am

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    November 26th, 2010 at 5:09 pm

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    January 19th, 2011 at 11:10 pm

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    Grégoire Lemaire
    February 23rd, 2011 at 3:46 am

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    anne
    May 30th, 2011 at 5:46 am

    http://colorpilgrim.com is missing from this list. I guess because it is fairly new. I personally like it because it has ready color combinations classified by mood, trend and category. So if I have to justify a color scheme to a client, I can back it up. Check it out – its pretty awesome.
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    March 16th, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    Great article. Thank you for putting together so many sites in one location. This will be a big help.
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    February 22nd, 2013 at 6:57 am

    This will help even the most uninspired to choose what colors to use. I’ll have to check them individually.
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