As a web designer, we will always deal with colors. There are a lot of useful online color tools such as color wheel, color scheme, color palette, color picker, and etc.

When i try to search for a complete list of online color tools, i can’t found any. So, i decided to collect them and share the list as a useful resource for other web designers.

Let’s start looking at the list:

Color Wheel

1. 4096 Color Wheel

2. Color Wheel from Colors On The Web

3. Color Wheel Color Calculator

Color Scheme

4. Infobound Color Schemer

5. Color Scheme Designer

6. ColorToy 2.0

7. The Color Wizard 3.0

8. Hex Color Scheme Generator

9. Color Schemer Online v2

10. Color Combos

11. Instant Color Schemes

12. Color Schemer from dhtmlgoodies.com

13. Daily Color Scheme

Color Palette

14. Slayeroffice Color Palette Creator

15. Toucan Color Palettes

16. Pictaculous

17. Pro Color Palette Software from Colourlovers

18. Color Palette Generator from DeGraeve.com

19. Color Palette Generator from jrm.cc

20. CSSDrive’s Image To Colors Palette Generator

21. The Color Tool

22. Palette Man

23. Big Huge Labs Palette Generator

Miscellaneous Color Tools

24. Kuler

25. Kolur

26. Color Codes Matching Chart HTML

27. Color Combinations Tester

28. Color Explorer

29. Color Hunter

30. Website Color Match

31. Color Theory @ ColorJack

32. ColorBlender

33. ColorDb

34. ColorJack: Color Generator

35. ColorJack: Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer)

36. ColorMixers

37. ColoRotate

38. ColourGrab

39. Hex Color Code Chart & Generator

40. Unsafe Colormatch

41. Web Color Visualizer

Now go exploring . . .www.archive.org

Here is a fascinating site if you need a little design, illustration or marketing inspiration from the days of olde. See what the hippest styles and products were for any decade for since the late 1800’s and search for terms that might interest you.

www.vintageadbrowser.com

As a designer, you know that there are probably millions of ways to arrange color palettes. Our environment is continually informing us of colors that best represent a slice of our humanity at any particular time. Technology, current events and philosophical beliefs are just some things that move and shape our color trends. Since following color trends is an ever changing, organic and creative process, there will never be one definitive resource on the matter. However, designers and manufacturers must stay on top of these patterns, to incorporate them, to respond to them or at least, just to be aware of them. In my efforts to stay on top of this ever changing and inspiring world of color, I have created a handy color trends toolbar to include quick and easy links to some of my favorite sites on COLOR.

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As a special gift, I would love to share this very helpful color trend toolbar – “Cherish COLOR”.

• Designed for anyone who researches color and trends along with those who just love color and art
• Especially helpful for manufacturers, licensees and artists
• No risk, completely anonymous, no strings attached
• It works on Windows, Mac and Linux and on all the major browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and finally Safari.

This easy to install tool bar has links to the most popular and useful sites in the areas of:

• Color Trends + Palettes (Sites, Blogs, Google Search, Books)
• Color Mixing (Color Tools, Color Management and Color Software)
• Color Me Fun (+ Games)
• Built in Google search engine
• Internet Radio (Add your favorite stations)
• Note Pad
• Weather
• E-mail Notifier
• Plus customize it by adding many “gadgets” of your choice

Please feel free to contact me with any feedback. You are also free to share this free tool with any design professionals you know would benefit. Enjoy!

You may download the browser toolbar here!

The Artist Way at Work, The book reveals why imagination and curiosity are the keys to success and satisfaction at work and in life. It will make you more creative in your business, but just as important, it will make you more creative in your life as a whole. The result will be a heightened sense of authenticity, adventure, excitement, and candor.
See also, The Artist’s Way and www.artistswayatwork.com.

Sark is an amazing author and artist who wrote eleven books about creative living. I own 4 of her 11 books, there are 2 that i highly recommend:
Creative Companion: How to Free Your Creative Spirit
Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder full self
See also, www.campsark.com

Official creativity and innovation day website!

The creative guide for creative and unconventional people.
See also, www.creativecareers.com

Creativity at work is a resource for developing personal creativity and organizational innovation in the workplace.

Creativity web is a resource center giving you information to help you become more creative.

Isotope Lab is a website dedicated to creativity for designers, with many exercises to rediscover your designer roots.

Another girl at play is a showcase of 25 women that are making a living by creating their art.

1000 journals is an attempt to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels, to see where they go, and what people do with them. The goal is to provide methods for people to interact and share their creativity.

Anyways… a site for stories told step by step.

Motivation123 A web site where you’ll discover hundreds of simple tips that help you find motivation. Check out the monthly newsletter, worth to subscribe (and free!).

The Lost Soul Companion Project fosters a sense of community for struggling artists of all kinds. Actors, musicians, writers, artists–and artists at heart–can become better equipped to deal with life’s disappointments and more motivated, productive, and better prepared for success as well.

The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women

An Idea a day will publish an original idea every day for the rest of time. The ideas published will be free of copyright, however valuable they may be. They are there to be read, to be enjoyed, to be exploited. Whatever. The project represents a completely fresh approach to the handling of ideas and intellectual property. This is not a get rich quick scheme. There are no plans to float, no advertisers or sponsors lined up. idea-a-day.com exists because it can. Because it will be fascinating to see what happens when these ideas are made available to the world.