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Top 10 Colour Tools for Web Designers

Colour is an important part of the overall web site design and online colour tools can save web designers a lot of time. Here is a list of the top 10 colour tools I use when working with Mambo templates (and non-Mambo templates too!)

Recommended Online Colour Tools

kuler

kuler

Color Scheme Generator 2

color scheme generator

Then once you have chosen your colours, you can analyse the contrast between the foreground and background colours with this nifty tool:
Colour Contrast Checker

colour contrast checker

Vischeck
Computer simulation of colour blindness - check if your colour scheme will work for all visitors.

Learning Colour

HP On-Line Color Thesaurus

Convert RGB colours to Hexadecimal
RGB to Hex Value Calculator

Inspiration

Colour Lovers

COLOURlovers

Experimenting

Color Blender

Colr.org

Color Palette Generator

Other Colour Tools You May Find Useful

Web 2.0 Color Palette

4096 Color Wheels

Pic2Color

ColorJack

Color Schemer Online v2

Accessibility Color Wheel

Color Hunter

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