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Color choice is a crucial decision in every website design. Sometimes you may be designing a site for an existing business that already has an established color scheme, but many design projects will require development of a color scheme. There are an almost endless number of tools online that will help you to find the right color scheme. These tools come in many different varieties. Below we have listed the tools that we have found to be the most useful.

Sample Color Shemes/Combinations:

• Color Schemer Scheme Gallery (Editor’s Choice) Browse through sample color schemes that have been submitted by users.
• COLOURlovers - sample color combinations
• Kuler from Adobe
• Daily Color Scheme
• Colr.org
• Color Combos
• Top Color Combinations in Web Design
• Color Schemes
• ColorBurn Winners

Tools to Help You Develop a Color Scheme:

• Website Color Picker (Editor’s Choice) A simple tool that lets you quickly choose background color, text color and link color for a sample page
• Color Schemer Online
• ColorJack Sphere
• EasyRGB - Color harmonies, complements, and themes
• ColorBlender
• Steel Dolphin Color Scheme Tool
• Color Hunter
• Color Mix
• Color Scheme Generator
• Color Palette
• Color Mixers
• Test Color Combinations
• Color Wheel Color Calculator
• Palette Man
• HTML Color Picking Chart
• Color Picker 1.0
• Color Picker 3.1

Tools to Get Colors from an Image:

• DeGraeve.com Color Palette Generator (Editor’s Choice)
• Color Palette Generator
• What’s Its Color
• Palette Generator

Other Tools:

• I Like Your Colors (Editor’s Choice) If you like the color’s of a particular website, enter the URL and you will get the html numbers for the colors that are used on that page.
• Color Blender
• Web-Smart Palette
• 100 Random Colors
• Multiple Color Tools from Limov.com
• Find the Average Color of a Photograph