Reccomend a colour wheel?

[Mike Barnard]

Hi.

There are numerous sites that have versions of the colour wheel out
there. Lots of downloadable programs, charts, sites etc.

Before I spend any money, what do YOU recomend as a good one? One
where I can enter a start colour and get ideas for maybe a business
site, or a romantic site, or... you get the idea!

What have you used and binned, or better still what have you kept?

Thanks.

 

[jack]

no need to buy one, several online for free...........

I'll try to be back with links later

 

[kdarling]

Before I spend any money, what do YOU recomend as a good one? One
where I can enter a start colour and get ideas for maybe a business
site, or a romantic site, or... you get the idea!

Scheme Generator is one...

http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

Another is HTML Safe Colors, but there are some neat twist links on
left:

http://www.musemixer.com/HTML-HEX-Color-Chart/

IANAA (I am not an artist ;-)
Kev

 

[Mike Barnard]

Scheme Generator is one...

http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

Seen that. Can't see a place to input a start colour that I may like
and see what potential contrasts it can comeup with.

Another is HTML Safe Colors, but there are some neat twist links on
left:

http://www.musemixer.com/HTML-HEX-Color-Chart/

Hmm, bookmarked now thanks, but not *exactly* what I'm after.

IANAA (I am not an artist ;-)
Kev

Nor I!

 

[Mike Barnard]

no need to buy one, several online for free...........

I'll try to be back with links later

I'm holding my breath....

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[John Hosking]

Seen that. Can't see a place to input a start colour that I may like
and see what potential contrasts it can comeup with.

Down, on the left, just above the footer, there's a link:
"Enter RGB (rough conversion)" which produces a dialog into which you
can enter (not RGB) hex values like FF33C6 (which then may get rounded
to something else).

 

[Mike Barnard]

Down, on the left, just above the footer, there's a link:
"Enter RGB (rough conversion)" which produces a dialog into which you
can enter (not RGB) hex values like FF33C6 (which then may get rounded
to something else).

Ah, fantastic. That tiny link has brought new life to the site!
Thanks.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Scheme Generator is one...
http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

I'd also recommend its predecessor:
http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme/index-en.html

which I have found gives more pleasing (to me) results.

Pixy also has this, which is pretty handy:
http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme/free-en.html

And a quick plug for my own site... it's not really a colour wheel, but a
colour mixer. Choose as many colours as you want, type them all in, and it
will tell you the "average" colour. (Imagine mixing lots of paints
together.)

e.g.: average(black, white) = #7f7f7f
e.g.: average(black, white, white) = #aaaaaa
e.g.: average(red, yellow) = #ff7f00
e.g.: average(green, silver, white) = #95bf95

http://buzzword.org.uk/colours/

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[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kim_Andr=E9_Aker=F8?=]

Hi.

There are numerous sites that have versions of the colour wheel out
there. Lots of downloadable programs, charts, sites etc.

Before I spend any money, what do YOU recomend as a good one? One
where I can enter a start colour and get ideas for maybe a business
site, or a romantic site, or... you get the idea!

What have you used and binned, or better still what have you kept?

Of my more recent discoveries, I've noticed that Adobe has one
(requires Flash):
http://kuler.adobe.com/

Only downside I can think of, is that it's very visual and doesn't
produce any color codes (not even HTML or RGB), so you'll have to pair
it off with a color picker.

Even so, it's pretty handy for discovering matching color schemes.

 

[John Hosking]

Of my more recent discoveries, I've noticed that Adobe has one
(requires Flash):
http://kuler.adobe.com/

Only downside I can think of, is that it's very visual and doesn't
produce any color codes (not even HTML or RGB), so you'll have to pair
it off with a color picker.

Actually, you can go to the Create link (where there is a set of five
colors comprising a scheme) and under each color swatch are tables of
values (HSV, RGB, CMYK, etc.). These tables have editable fields, so you
can set in a hex value and see how the colors change dynamically. It
does appear, however, that you must individually copy (ctrl+c or pencil)
the values you want from schemes you develop.

Even so, it's pretty handy for discovering matching color schemes.

Yes, interesting.

 

[Bergamot]

Can't see a place to input a start colour

Um, look near the bottom left corner, where it says "Enter RGB".

 

[Bergamot]

I'd also recommend its predecessor:
http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme/index-en.html

which I have found gives more pleasing (to me) results.

What I like about the original Color Schemer is that it lets you fine
tune hue, saturation and lightness. V2 doesn't.

To me, V1 would be perfect if it let you enter the starting RGB, like V2
does.

http://buzzword.org.uk/colours/

FYI, the 8em side margins on the html element don't always work very
well, depending on font and window size. You should consider using a
max-width and horizontally centering the content area instead.

 

[Bergamot]

http://kuler.adobe.com/

If you're just looking for pre-configured color schemes...
http://www.colorschemer.com/

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