CheckMyColours is a web tool to check foreground and background color mix of all DOM elements of a website page. With this tool, You can determine if they provide sufficient contrast especially by somone with color vision deficiency.

The contrast is checked by the value given on Luminosity Constrast Ratio (WCAG 2.0) and Colour brigthness (WCAG 1.0) ratios. There are some formulas to figure from this tool before you can set the perfect luminosity constrast scale value for the text, diagram and their background. The color brightness differences are also set based on spesific color range value for the purpose.

Web accessibility is one of the important aspects to achieve if you want to build a good website. CheckMyColours will help you in a time snap for better web accesibilty. Have a quick try ;)

URL: http://www.checkmycolours.com/

Pictaculous is a color tool that allows you to get a color palette right after you upload an image.
The color palette will be consist of 5 colors which are taken from your uploaded graphics, complete with its hexa code for each color. It handles PNG, GIF, JPG image file format and your file cannot be larger than 500kb.

This color palette generator is so simple, but quite helpful. There are also two other well known color community websites that will suggest you some alternatives of color schemes. They are Adobe Kuler and COLOURlovers. Once you’re done, you can download the Adobe Swatch File, share it on some social bookmark sites or share by email.

Just a pretty cool color tool web, to add on your bookmark list.

URL: http://pictaculous.com/

Color Picker is a simple jQuery plugin to select color. It has the same interface just like select color feature in Adobe Photoshop. You can set this color preview in flat mode, which works as an element in a page, or customize it so you can have the color preview after a toogle button is clicked. The color picker will slide or animate with certain callback functions.

Check out the full features on the source page and download the Color Picker jQuery plugin if you think it is useful for you!

URL: http://www.eyecon.ro/colorpicker/

Yet traditional methods of choosing colors on computers are limited to obscure sliders and flattened two-dimensional viewers. With ColoRotate, you can work with colors in 3D, in real time, and in a way that matches how our minds process color. ColoRotate has an intuitive interface that eliminates the need to memorize or jot down color combinations or numbers. Indeed, you can traverse across an open three-dimensional color space and choose (or design) the color palette that fits your needs. In the process, you can uncover color relationships that give your designs an aesthetic balance that will please the most discriminating eye.

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“ColorFlow” is a set of desktop screensavers that consist of 14 simple, non-distracting desktops playing with color and different shading. Set it to display a different rotating image every 5 minutes or so.
Enjoy the set and start playing out the ColorFlow that flows your day with colors by visiting the source link ;)

More new color tools are found on internet nowadays, but this one is special! CSS Drive has launched the new Image to Colors Palette Generator! To get start you’ll need to upload an image or submit an image URL to generate a color palette based on the image’s primary colors.

The extra benefits you can get from this handy Image to Colors Palette Generator:
- It supports various image file format: .PNG, .GIF, .JPG and JPEG
- Instantly generates Photoshop swatches (.ACO) and CSS stylesheet (.CSS) as you can download these files for further design process.
- A Click on one of the color on the palette will show you the Hex code of that related color. You can compare between the Selected color and the Current color, as the Current color swatch will dynamically changes the color and hexa when your cursor is moving on the color palette.
- It produces 4 different palettes for efficient use of extracted colors, which are: Light Color Palette, Medium Color Palette, Dark Color Palette and Complete Color Palette.

This Image to Colors Palette Generator is very useful for quickly grabbing a particular color within an image for inspiration and also worth to save on your bookmark list. Have quick jump and tell us how you like this cool color tool ;)

Color is always important in the design work! Everything will start to flow in your creative ideas as you check your surroundings for colors.
Designers are always addicted to explore more color schemes for their work …. Whenever you meet an uncompromised deadline, what kind of tools that you might think would help you best to get color schemes that creatively deliver brilliant design concept? We have a great list of color tools, color schemes and resources that might help you out. They are categorized in several sections, which are Color Wheel, Color Chart, Web and CSS Color Tools, General Color Tools and Color Palettes.

Kindly share this post and please drop us comment if you have other color related websites that haven’t been mentioned here.

Color Lovers, get ready to color!

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ColorJack.com is a website that specialized in Color softwares and tools. When you first landed to his cool site, you will see interesting color schemes that collects around 98 color combinations. Hover your mouse, and you’ll see a color scheme for each combination in a tool tip.

We have to say that ColorJack schemers is a very smart way to enjoy and to find inspirational colors for your design without being confused with pagination links to navigate. When you decide to click a color combination, you will be directed to another page to get more detailed information about each color inside it.

Have a quick visit to try ColorJack by yourself, as it should be a real time saver for your color inspiration ;)