The choice of what colors to use can be a tough one to make, whether it be choosing colors for a new logo or creating a theme for a product catalog. Companies often choose their colors in order to influence their customers in one way or another. In an article by Karen Haller, color and design specialist and blogger, the reasoning behind many fast food restaurants using the colors red and yellow is due to the fact that it causes hunger and the need to leave a restaurant as soon as possible to make room for other customers. (branding – why red & yellow is used by the fast food industry)
Muzli, a trendy site helping to inspire designers, provides a list of 12 sites used to play with colors. Our personal favorite of these is 5. BrandColors, which showcases which colors the largest brands use as for their brand architecture and color scheme.
Be mindful of the color you choose to represent your brand. We hope these tools are as helpful to you as they are to us.
Happy color shopping!
6. Coolors
Generate infinite color palettes for your designs and share, export or save it in your profile.
7. Color Hex Color Codes
Color hex is a easy to use tool to get the color codes information including color models (RGB,HSL,HSV and CMYK), css and html color codes.
9. colourcode — find your colour scheme
colourco.de is an online designer tool, which allows you to easily and intuitively combine colours.
10 . Adobe Color CC
Create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations from the Color community.
12. COLOURlovers
COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles… All in the spirit of love
