How to select colors to a design (Best Practices)
Most of Developer / New Designers related to the software development field are finding a way to select a color scheme to their designs because creating a color scheme is essential to good design.
I need to mentioned that applying a perfect color theme is not the only way to make a good design, you need to think about various things such as Shape, Typography, balance, proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast and space, Content Structure etc.. 🙂
Most of time I personally select the Material Design color palate for a instant modern design or search a nice web on the internet use checkmycolours.com and get the colors 🙂 If you want to know the basis of the color theories please read colorsontheweb.com first
Its better to define color pallet (less than 5 colors is perfect) before start a design. There are no any theories behind that I still believe using a single color with few shades you can do a fantastic job.
Don’t worry there are 100 of online tools available for your help. I have gathered together some fantastic tools to help you perfect your color choices.
01. Adobe Colour CC
02. Mudcube Colour Sphere
03. Check my Colours
04. The Color App
05. Color Hunter
06. TinEye
07. Color
08. SpyColor.com
09. Designspiration
10. ColorExplorer
11. Hex Color Scheme Generator.
12. COLOURlovers
13. Color Scheme Designer
14. COPASO
15. Colourmod
16. ColorZilla
17. Colormunki
18. colr.org
19. ColourGrab
20. ColorBlender
21. GrayBit
22. COLRD
23. Shutterstock Spectrum
24. Stripe Generator 2.0
25. Colors on the Web
26. Pictaculous
27. Contrast-A
28. ColoRotate
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About Author
Rangana Dissanayake
Working as a lead consultant(software) at well reputed IT company in Sri Lanka, I have been involved in UID, UXD, graphic design, website design & development, eCommerce and WordPress for over 10 years. I'm proficient with React JS, Angular, Node JS, Java Script, HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Web Design, Adobe CC and PHP. I also specialize in all forms of digital marketing including SEO, AdSense, Affiliate marketing and blogging.