10 Tools for Creating Brilliant Color Schemes

1. Adobe Kuler

Adobe Kulers' user-friendly, versatile, cloud-based interface creates a slick experience. It's built around three core principals: Users can browse, build and share color schemes through the site, desktop (Adobe Air) app or (Mac OS X) Dashboard widget. It's also available inside the Adobe CS4 Creative Suite applications. You can search color schemes by color, concept, hex values, tags and more. The ability to create a scheme based on the colors of an image you upload is also an incredibly useful feature. Once you've settled on your color combination, download it as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file or by simply accessing the color table values.

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Color is one of the hardest aspects of design to master. The infinite number of combinations means it can be a frustrating process to decide on a palette that perfectly suits your requirements. The color scheme you choose will affect the entire design, so be sure to dedicate plenty of care and attention to color management.

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These 10 color combination tools will allow you to quickly and efficiently browse and create a variety of color schemes or palettes.

Which sites or resources do you use to create color combinations? Share some recommendations in the comments.

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