Colors communicate website themes, design and its main objective. Plus, they also have the ability to create a positive effect on the visitor and entice them to revisit the site. Psychologists have also discovered that over 60% of approval/rejection of a design/website is dependent on this fact as people are subconsciously inclined more towards color impressions. Hence, it is important to choose the right color palette when you are working on a web design project.

Here is a list of some useful color palette resources to generate color palettes, schemes and themes for your design work.

Colorlovers

There are currently 234,060 users  sharing 2,161,472 colors in 935,479 palettes to create their special design projects. It is a resource to choose a color for your ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification. It is a place to check out variety of colors, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews. You can build your network by participating in discussion forum.

ColoRotate

With this color palette tool, you can work with colors in 3D, you can quickly see the multidimensional nature of your colors. It enables you to change your color one at a time, blend two different colors together and also transform a complete palette of colors at the same time with contrast and color. You can use its quick drag-and-drop feature to adjust hue, brightness, and saturation. It also enables you to import and export several formats, load from an image, or preview colorblindness. You can post your palettes, and tag palettes to engage with the community, or discussions.

Kuler

This is a community driven web application by Adobe, which lets you browse through thousands of color themes created by the Kuler community. You can search by tag word, title, creator, or hex color. It allows you to create your own by using the color wheel, harmony rules, and color sliders. You can also share and comment on different palettes and receive feedback on your own creations. The tool offers great features, and you can even download its desktop version.

ColorExplorer

This is a powerful color picker tool that that will help you choose the colors of your website or design projects. It enables you to drop color;  adjust brightness; adjust RGB ; autotag; import image palette ; Websafe colors; colornames; import scales; randomize; stay-on-top mode, and more. It supports HTML, VB, Java, and many other formats. Its Websafe feature ensures that the colors you pick will be rendered properly in most of the browsers, though it does depend on the user having at least 256 colors available.

Colors Palette Generator

The Colors Palette Generator by CSSdrive is a useful tool to easily create a color palette from an image. You can get the images to create a color palette either from your own computer, or from any URL. You can easily upload an image to generate a color palette based on the image’s primary colors. You can upload a file up to 1 MB. It supports variety of image types such as .png, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg etc.

Toucan

This creativity tool allows you to choose up to 20 colors per palette using color association rules or an uploaded image. This tool can be used alone or in conjunction with other creation tools by aviary. It also provides you an opportunity to learn and share with the community; you can  learn new skills from the tutorials available.

Colorschemedesigner

This tool ensures accuracy with color space conversions, better preview, enhanced scheme creation system, unique scheme IDs and permanent URL of the scheme. It allows you to edit each color shade in the palette. It has also added Instant Designer Shop to get hi-quality professional logos, templates, designs and services for instant use.

Colorwizard

This application lets you match colors to create great looking designs. It allows you to submit your own base color, returns a set of hue, saturation and shade variations of your color. It also suggests color schemes based on complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations. It also has a randomize function that lets you generate unique color schemes for your project.

ColorHunter

This application allows you to explore and generate color palettes from images. You can search images used in the process of generating a color palette from Flickr using relevant search term. You can also upload photos and get a color palette based on the colors from your image.

Genopal

This color palette tool has two Free online tools to help you in generating color schemes, you can extract colors from an image, or you can also create your own color scheme. It lets you explore a much larger set of color possibilities and work seamlessly with other 2D/3D and Web Design programs.

Hope these tools will help you in selecting the right color palette for your design project. Please provide us with your valuable suggestions and feedback as always.