With the ever increasing resolution of screens and monitor sizes the visual aspects of a web design has never been more important. Fortunately there are a number of tools available to make the task of creating an impressive color scheme even easier. The Material Palette from Matthieu Aussaguel creates a

Implementing the colors from an image into a design project is a surefire to have the colors complement one another.  With the emergence of HTML5, grabbing specific colors from an image has never been easier, or quicker. Browsers can complete these simple tasks that were previously reserved for image processing

The color scheme can make or break a design project. There’s nothing worse than having to aimlessly plow through color palettes for that perfect color scheme to fit your project. Luckily the open source community over at ColourLovers has got the color-challenged covered. Colourlovers features a number of color palettes

One of the quickest way to come up with the right colors is to use ColorPicker. Simple, but with all the necessary features, it has hex input, a color slider and the ability to save colors to a palette. You can also choose from generated palettes with complementary, triade, tetrade

Useful for all kinds of color tasks that may otherwise require several programs, Colorzilla puts a lot of tools useful for web designers into a simple to use extension for Firefox. Get color readings that you can then adjust and paste into other programs, measure distance between two points on

A fun tool at 2CreateAWebsite is based on a spinning color wheel lets you choose colors from the wheel or add hex code to create matching color schemes. Somewhat limited it its function it serves the purpose of finding matching shades of a hue you may already be using in

Another free and very easy to use color scheme is designer is offered by InfoHound. You can set the saturation, brightness and hue with sliders or enter a particular value directly into one of the boxes. Matching colors will be automatically chosen, which may help a great deal if you’re