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Graphic Design: Color Theory

This guide will help graphic design students with materials and resources for the Graphic Design programs

EBooks from Galileo

video

Color Palette Generators

Paletteable — interactive color palette generator

Kuler — Adobe color palette resource

Coolors — interactive color palette generator

Randoma11y — accessibility-friendly random color generator for text & background combinations

Color Safe

Build accessible colour combinations

Color Hunt

Free and open platform for color inspiration

Color Blender

Put two valid CSS color values, in the format you choose--hex, RGB, RGB%--then choose the number of midpoints you'd like between them and blend. You'll get intermediate colors with their hexadecimal codes.

Web Color Chart - Hexadecimal - by VisiBone

Bob Stein has arranged the 216 hexadecimal HTML color codes by hue and presents them as cards, charts and swatches, some free and some at cost.

Web Safe Colours

provides a web-safe diagram, web-smart colours, named colours, 500+ colours, web-safe colours by hue, and colour links.

Color Theory

Color Theory

Color theory is the collection of rules and guidelines which designers use to communicate with users through appealing color schemes in visual interfaces. 

video on Color

resources & Links

Color Matters

Everything about color, usage, and designing with color

 

Color Palette Library

Library of color schemes. HTML and CSS color codes available.

 

Coolors 

Create the perfect palette or get inspired by thousands of beautiful color schemes. The super fast color schemes generator!

 

Paletton 

Palleton is a designer tool for creating color combinations that work together well. If you need some help coming up with a color scheme for your website, Palleton will give you some amazing combinations. Choose your colors on a color wheel and select from some tried color combinations such as Monochromatic, Adjacent Colors, Triad, Tetrad, and Freestyle.

 

Color Theory In Graphic Design:Brief Guide for Non-designers 

Article

 

The power of color 

GCF Global

 

Color Control

Make Color Work for You

 

Flat UI Color Picker

Flatuicolorpicker is more than a useful tool, it is just a collection of colors that you can use in your next design project.

 

Adobe Colour

Browse thousands of color combinations

 

Colorsinspo

All in one resource for finding colors

 

The Missing Cheatsheet For Brilliant Color Combinations

 

COLOURlovers 

a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes
and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles... All in the spirit of love.

 

Color Theory

 

Color Theory for Designers

from Smashing Magazine

 

Color Scheme Designer

Find color analogic, contrasting, and monochromatic schemes and test them with various vision abnormalities.