Web Standards Group

Resources

Colour Tools

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→ Color Extractor
Tool to extract colors from images and websites.
→ Color Meanings in Relation to Internet Marketing
Color plays an important role in a potential customer's decision making process, certain colors set different moods and can help to draw attention.
→ 100 Random Colors
Generate 100 random colors for your perusal.
→ Pantone Color Conversion Chart
Full featured color conversion tool for converting Pantone colors to RGB and Hex.
→ Colour Contrast Analyzer (Questionable link)
Colour Contrast Analyzer is a tool for checking foreground & background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. Determining "colour visibility" is based on algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):
→ ColorMatch Remix
Select one Primary Color and it calulates 8 other colours that match it. It also generates a preview of what the colours might look like as backgrounds, links, etc. Also included is over 200 predefined themes.
→ AFP Webworks Color Tool
Enter color values and number of steps for suggested color scheme
→ color schemer
Easy to use color schemer with options to lighten and darken suggestions
→ color wheel
This tool is useful for suggestions on web-smart, web-safe and unsafe colors.
→ color schemes picker
Color schemer with options to generate mono, contrast, triad, tetrad and analogic palletes.
→ color schemer
This color schemer included a sample web page where you can see the results of your color combinations in action.
→ Web Color Theory
A Flash color tool. Does not offer a suggested pallette.
→ Slayer Office Color Tools
Good intructions accompany this color pallette tool. Easy to use with subtle pallette suggestions and plenty of options.
→ Slayer Office Color Tools
Good intructions accompany this color pallette tool. Easy to use with subtle pallette suggestions and plenty of options.
→ color picker by Dave Lochhead
A Flash tool which suggests five matching colors.
→ color schemer by Pieter J. Fourie
This page has a link to a color schemer with plenty of options such as five "harmony" ranges, variable saturation and lightness and RGB, CMYK and hex values