Sunday, July 25, 2004 2:09 PM
by
jross
EasyRGB.com - Help for the color "impaired"
I have to admit that I'm a lot better at admiring a nice set of colors to serve as a “palette” for a web page than I am at picking the colors from scratch. I also find it hard to be imaginatative in picking nice looking complementary colors, given a “main” color.
It had been some time since I google for “color schemes” or “web colors”, but this time when I tried a search on “web page effective color schemes combinations”, I came across this marvelous website: EasyRGB.com/ Although I was wanting to experiment with color schemes for a website I'm helping my church set up, when I found this site I immediatly wished I had known about it last winter when we were getting ready to re-paint our house. What a gem -- here's a way to have the consultation of a color consultant . For free
One really neat feature was their “Search a Tint”. This tool will let you pick any of about 20 different paint companys color palettes, then type in a color name. You don't need to know any of their fancy names -- just try the basic color you're interested in. For example, I picked Sherwin Williams, then typed in Green, and here's what came back:
Now if you want to find complementary colors, just click the “harmonies” link, and you'll see a full range of harmonizing colors.
But it gets better!!! This was apparently the initial site to do something like this, but now there are some specialized engines for generating palettes of colors. Check out these:
Color Mix rematch ,
Traumwind 6-Colormatch
ColorMatch 10k - I like this one because it lets you save up to 4 palettes for quick comparison.