Kuler – Building Color Schemes
Color schemes are an important building block to good web design Here is a great tool from Adobe that allows you to build a color scheme from a logo or photo or by simply choosing the colors yourself.
You have to register with Adobe to use the tool, but registration is free.
Look for the “Create” button on the left to open up the palette selector and you can either upload an image or pull one from your Flickr account. I’ve seen similar pages do this, but they took color samples at random from the image. With Kuler you can move the hotspots around to select the key colors that you want to incorporate in your theme. The resulting color swatch shows the hex color values and is great to print out and keep with your client files.
Here is a screen shot showing our Computer Careers logo and part of the resulting color swatches:
By using colors on a consistent basis you improve the professional look and feel of the site and increase the believability of the site.
Special thanks to Michael in my Web Programming classes for showing me this great web development tool.