15 Online Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme

Having an unbalanced design when it comes to colors is bound to send people away from your website. Thankfully, there are online tools that provide you with predefined color schemes that are proved to go well together. You can even create your own scheme because most tools have extensive customization options so that you obtain the design that you truly want.

There are so many combinations of colors you can choose from that you have definitely found yourself wasting lots of time trying lots of color schemes and you still could not make up your mind.

This is because when you look at so many color schemes in a short time, they lose meaning. No color appeals to you, no scheme is special anymore. When you hit this road block, it is time to take a break and get back to picking colors after a few hours. Call a friend to give you an opinion, you could absolutely use a second pair of eyes.

After you choose a color scheme in the end, apply it to your website and use another kind of online tools to check if the contrast is ok. Good contrast ensures that important elements get the attention you want. This way you make sure that the visitor will receive the message you send and will not pass by important information like discounts, promotions, freebies etc.

Having this piece of advice in mind, let’s go over 15 web based tools that will make it possible for you to choose a color scheme for your web design in no time.

Paletton

A designer tool for creating color combinations that work together well.

Colour Lovers

COLOURlovers is a community design from around the world where people share, appreciate and discuss about colors, palettes and patterns.

Spy Color

SpyColor.com is a free service that provides information about any color, including conversions to many color models (RGB, CMYK etc). Color schemes like complementary, triadic, tetradic, monochromatic colors and many more.