Help me choose the right colors for my website

[welshstew]

lots of tools here

Plus all of these:

Color Scheme Generators
1. WellStyled Color Scheme Generator - generator of color schemes and palettes to create well balanced and harmonic.
2. ColorJack - multiple online color scheme generators used by designers.
3. Colorschemer Online Version 2
4. 4096 Color Wheel - hover over the to generate the scheme.
5. Genopal Online - online harmonious color schemes creator.
6. Unsafe Colormatch - create 24-bit color schemes online.
7. Color Mixers - RGB remixing tool.
8. Transparent PNG Generator - create transparent PNG images in any color.
9. Colordb - powerful color scheme generator.
10. Colr - generate color from your own images or flickr.
11. ColorMatch Redux - simple color scheme generator.
12. ColorToy 2.0 - flash color schemer.
13. Visibone Colorlab - simple color wheel.
14. Dhtmlgoodies Color Schemer
15. Triplecode Munsell Palette - cool flash-based color picker.
16. Colorsontheweb - offers various color tools.
17. Gpeters - instant color scheme from Yahoo images.
Color Palette Generators
1. ColorHunter - new color palette generator from images.
2. Color Blender - free online color palette for design and matching.
3. Swatchify - easily create and share your color palette.
4. Jrm Color Palette Generator - generate a color palette based on an image.
5. Degraeve - color palette generator from images.
6. Slayeroffice - simple color palette creator.
7. I+Like+Your+Colors - web pages color palette generator.
8. Bighugelabs - create a harmonious color palette from a photo.

[karinne]

I'll add

kuler
COLORLovers

[Preston]

When I design a site, I look at what the overall purpose of the site is - I look at the target market of the site. Here are a few examples:

If I were creating an automotive site for antique cars - car collectors of early 1900 autos, I would choose colors and fonts that were popular back in that time period - such as brown and black.

If my site was for a five star hotel in New York City or Paris, France, I would pick an elegant font for the page names and simple yet classy - easy to read fonts - for the navigation and content etc. The colors would likely be gold and/or red - or black and gold - or navy blue and white etc. Look at other five star hotel sites and see what they are doing and do something similar but without violating any copyrights of their design schemes.

If I were making a website for crafts and hobbies, I might choose the popular colors that you see in craft stores and supplies. Since natural wood is often seen in craft stores before the item is painted, I would use beige colors and natural wood patterns or unpainted wood shapes as part of the design decor of the site.

If the site is for a hospital - use lots of white and pictures of rooms with natural sunlight coming through.

Hope that helps.

[seowebdesigner]

First study the theme of the website, what service or what kind of information is the site given for visitors. Like a site is theme for nature related information. You can use, shades of green and with the touch of yellow. The best way to pick the colors is the nature. If someone want to design website for book selling, so you can use light brown shades, gray shades and with some relevant matching dark shades. In this way, you will learn how to use the colors for the design. Try it.



Regards,

[frinkky]

Just found this site. Nice little tool, put in a key word relevant to your site and it brings up sample photos and colour schemes.

http://alpha.moodboarder.com/