Creativity comes and goes! That’s one fact all developers and designers experience once too many.
Brainstorming an entire layout and hitting a dead-end when it comes to the color scheme is an often met issue, especially when a client wants to pick from 3 different color schemes.
Picking a few colors to satisfy the majority is not easy, not to mention when the client already has an existent brand and you have to keep that in your formula.
There are a lot theories and methods to consider before building a color scheme, but one main step is color matching! A while back, I’ve written an article about Wev developer essential tools where I’ve listed a few tools that would help web developers on a daily basis, I think it’s time to add another one on that list!
The Color Scheme Designer
I’ve had the chance to use a few color scheme builders, but ultimately, I’ve been using CSD (Color Scheme Designer). It’s flexible, easy to use, all the features you need, colorblind support and.. it’s an online tool!
My favorite feature is the wonderful well-built light and dark template example which you can test your color schemes on, and ultimately, save your palettes for future use.
For those who ask, I personally chose to write about this wonderful tool, I’m not gaining any benefits whatsoever
Have you used Color Scheme Designer yet? or what are your tools to build color schemes?
This CSD or color scheme designer will come in handy for me since I have a hard time choosing the perfect color scheme for things since Im not really good with designs but with this it will definitely help a lot.
The good news is that you can apply the known triad, tetrad and analogic RGB color rules to get great looking schemes, though feel free to manually adjust the colors, play with CSD until you get it right
A great tool, good to see others using it aswell. I’ve been using it for a while and it has definatly taken the headache out of creating professional eye pleasing sites.
I can definitely use this to reeve up my boring blog. Thanks for sharing this tool.
Now this is wicked for those that doesn’t have a natural talent of mixing color combination. Finding the right color takes me a lot of time.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned is that talent is something you can truly gain along the way, this tool should definitely be of help
Thanks for the information. I will have to give Color Scheme Designer a try. Have you ever tried Color Scheme Generator (http://colorschemetools.net/colorschemegenerator)? I would be interested to know what the most popular color scheme tool is among professionals.
I haven’t checked that tool in depth details, but I gave it a fast peak and I like how it has a live basic template update with the chosen color scheme, I’d give that a plus. Other than that, it has pretty much the same functionality. I guess we can leave it as a matter of preference