Color Pickers and Color Tools for Windows
Windows tools to help you pick colors, convert color values, choose color schemes, explore color combinations, and create and save color swatches. Also includes tools for learning about color and simulating color blindness to help you better choose color combinations for color-deficient viewers.
VisiBone Swatch Collections (Win/Mac)
Featured Download - Free color palette swatch collections for BBEdit, Fireworks, The GIMP, HomeSite, Illustrator, ImageReady, Paint Shop Pro, Painter, and Photoshop.
Featured Download - Free color palette swatch collections for BBEdit, Fireworks, The GIMP, HomeSite, Illustrator, ImageReady, Paint Shop Pro, Painter, and Photoshop.
Adobe kuler
This online tool from Adobe labs lets you "explore, create, and share color schemes for your Web pages, design projects, and other creative work."
This online tool from Adobe labs lets you "explore, create, and share color schemes for your Web pages, design projects, and other creative work."
AV Bros. Colorist (Win)
Select colors from a library of over 500 colors, convert color values, copy color codes, save favorite colors, and more. $9.95 US.
Select colors from a library of over 500 colors, convert color values, copy color codes, save favorite colors, and more. $9.95 US.
Color Analyser (Win)
Break color images down into the component parts to learn more about color systems. $10 US
Break color images down into the component parts to learn more about color systems. $10 US
Color Assistant (Win)
Modify and explore various color combinations with a click of a button. $10 US.
Modify and explore various color combinations with a click of a button. $10 US.
Color Browser (Win)
Easily pick colors for web design or other graphics work. Color Browser copies the color string to the clipboard for easy pasting into your HTML editor.
Easily pick colors for web design or other graphics work. Color Browser copies the color string to the clipboard for easy pasting into your HTML editor.
Color Cop (Win)
Converts RGB decimal to RGB hexadecimal triplets. Other features include a built in color picker, magnifier, color preview, auto copy to clipboard, and an eyedropper to choose colors anywhere on the screen. Only 13KB. Freeware.
Converts RGB decimal to RGB hexadecimal triplets. Other features include a built in color picker, magnifier, color preview, auto copy to clipboard, and an eyedropper to choose colors anywhere on the screen. Only 13KB. Freeware.
Color Picker (Win)
Freeware. This color picker includes a magnifier for making precise color selections. Allows you to copy up to 8 color samples and displays color values in several formats (Hex, RGB, etc.).
Freeware. This color picker includes a magnifier for making precise color selections. Allows you to copy up to 8 color samples and displays color values in several formats (Hex, RGB, etc.).
Color Schemer (Win)
Help you create color schemes that work by diusplaying 16 harmonious colors and allowing you to choose choose, modify, and save color schemes. Shareware - $25 US to register. 15-day trial available.
Help you create color schemes that work by diusplaying 16 harmonious colors and allowing you to choose choose, modify, and save color schemes. Shareware - $25 US to register. 15-day trial available.
Color Wheel Pro (Win)
Allows you to create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples. The preview is real-time: when adjusting the color scheme, you see the changes immediately.
Allows you to create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples. The preview is real-time: when adjusting the color scheme, you see the changes immediately.
ColorBlender.com
ColorBlender is a free online tool for color matching and palette design.
ColorBlender is a free online tool for color matching and palette design.
ColorImpact (Win)
"ColorImpact is a professional tool for creating harmonious color schemes... ColorImpact is aimed at professional multimedia and web designers, but is simple to use even for beginners... includes many features for quick access from Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, FrontPage etc. Several color formulas are built-in including triads, complements and analogous colors." Shareware - US$45.
"ColorImpact is a professional tool for creating harmonious color schemes... ColorImpact is aimed at professional multimedia and web designers, but is simple to use even for beginners... includes many features for quick access from Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, FrontPage etc. Several color formulas are built-in including triads, complements and analogous colors." Shareware - US$45.
ColorMania (Win)
Free Windows color picker features: interactively change RGB and HSV values, eyedropper, screen magnifier, color display in different formats.
Free Windows color picker features: interactively change RGB and HSV values, eyedropper, screen magnifier, color display in different formats.
ColorPerfect (Win)
Navigate an RGB Color Wheel using any one of six pre-defined filters: triad, complementary, split complementary, complementary left, complementary right, complementary middle, and analogous. You can choose to save your color palette as one of 3 common file formats: Color Swatch (.ACO), Color Table (.ACT) and Color Palette (.PAL). $19.95 US.
Navigate an RGB Color Wheel using any one of six pre-defined filters: triad, complementary, split complementary, complementary left, complementary right, complementary middle, and analogous. You can choose to save your color palette as one of 3 common file formats: Color Swatch (.ACO), Color Table (.ACT) and Color Palette (.PAL). $19.95 US.
Colorspeak (Web-based)
"Colorspeak is an experiment to explore how we perceive and associate the colors of the so-called safe palette with words, sounds, people, emotions, and events in our own experience." Click on any color in the Web safe color palette and you can submit your comments about that color and read what others have submitted about a color.
"Colorspeak is an experiment to explore how we perceive and associate the colors of the so-called safe palette with words, sounds, people, emotions, and events in our own experience." Click on any color in the Web safe color palette and you can submit your comments about that color and read what others have submitted about a color.
Diplodock Color Picker Pro (Win)
Pick one or several colors anywhere on your screen with a single mouse click. Features 2 capture modes, interactive zoom tool that magnifies portions of the screen, 20+ color formats, 10+ color spaces, and 15+ color variations (Inversion, Complement, Desaturation, etc.)." Shareware - US$20
Pick one or several colors anywhere on your screen with a single mouse click. Features 2 capture modes, interactive zoom tool that magnifies portions of the screen, 20+ color formats, 10+ color spaces, and 15+ color variations (Inversion, Complement, Desaturation, etc.)." Shareware - US$20
DotColor (Win)
This small freeware utility will display the RGB and Hex values of any pixel on the screen.
This small freeware utility will display the RGB and Hex values of any pixel on the screen.
HTMLcolor (Win)
"Advanced HTML-colorpicker... lets you configure your own colors (RGB input) and paste the results (HTML code) in your web document. Previews fore, back and links-colors. Option to load image files." Freeware.
"Advanced HTML-colorpicker... lets you configure your own colors (RGB input) and paste the results (HTML code) in your web document. Previews fore, back and links-colors. Option to load image files." Freeware.
PaletteMaker (Win)
Creates 256 (or smaller) color palettes from True Color source images using a blend of algorithms to achieve high quality palettes. Evaluation version available. Approximately $69US.
Creates 256 (or smaller) color palettes from True Color source images using a blend of algorithms to achieve high quality palettes. Evaluation version available. Approximately $69US.
Pixie (Win)
Fast, small, free color picker for Windows. "Simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour."
Fast, small, free color picker for Windows. "Simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour."
Techvision Color Picker (Win)
Pick colors from anywhere on your screen with a single mouse click or a key press. Shows you the color in a variety of ways, including RGB and HSL pairs, Delphi, C++ or HTML constants. With a single click you can copy the desired constant into the Windows clipboard. Includes a smart zoom lens with magnification factor up to 32x for accurate pixel positioning. Shareware - US$14.95.
Pick colors from anywhere on your screen with a single mouse click or a key press. Shows you the color in a variety of ways, including RGB and HSL pairs, Delphi, C++ or HTML constants. With a single click you can copy the desired constant into the Windows clipboard. Includes a smart zoom lens with magnification factor up to 32x for accurate pixel positioning. Shareware - US$14.95.
The Colorizer (Web-based)
This color selector from Webreference has a Photoshop-style appearance, provides hex, decimal, and percentage values, and displays links and text for selected colors.
This color selector from Webreference has a Photoshop-style appearance, provides hex, decimal, and percentage values, and displays links and text for selected colors.
Vischeck Color Blindness Simulator
Tools to help you see your designs as colorblind individuals would see them. There's a Java version, a Photoshop plug-in (Windows only), and an online version.
Tools to help you see your designs as colorblind individuals would see them. There's a Java version, a Photoshop plug-in (Windows only), and an online version.
VisiBone Webmaster's Color Lab (Web-based)
Clicking on a color in the on-screen palette displays a swatch with the color codes and name, clicking on additional colors will give you a side by side comparison of up to 8 colors.
Clicking on a color in the on-screen palette displays a swatch with the color codes and name, clicking on additional colors will give you a side by side comparison of up to 8 colors.