Need some color inspiration?

If you’re like me, you find that the step of choosing a color palette for a design you’re working on can take awhile and can leave you stranded in the design process. Often you don’t have the time or luxury of finding inspiration by perusing books, magazines, websites, life, nature. This more organic process is not always realistic.

I’ve compiled some of my favorite resources for color inspiration.

Colour Lovers
http://colourlovers.com/
“Colour Lovers” is very robust resource. They describe their site as “a place to view, rate, and review some lovely colours & palettes.” You can browse top colors and palettes (rated by members on a scale of 1-8), search for colors based on names, numbers, and pantone numbers. There is also a random color & palette generator, in case you want the system to choose a color for you.





Color Match
http://www.colormatch.dk/
ColorMatch 5k is a little utility that lets you select any color that you want, and a matching 6-color palette is automatically displayed for you. This handy widget also gives you the HEX colors immediately.





Color Blender
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/
The Color Blender lets you choose two colors from their palette. You can display format values by HEX, RGB, or RGB percentage. After you choose your two colors, you select the number of midpoints (between 1 and 10) you want and a palette is generated blending one color to the other.





Feel free to comment any other favorite color resources you might have!