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Choosing perfect color combinations is always a difficult task, even for the most experienced web designer. Lucky for you, there are several free online tools that can help you find and select matching color combinations to use on your website, blog, brochure, PDF or any other project only in a matter of minutes.
How to find and select color matching combinations that perfectly harmonize and provide maximum legibility and eye-catching results to your website, blog or brochure, is something crucial to make sure you look professional and reliable to a reader.
In fact, although there are infinite color combinations that you can use, the human eye perceives only a few color combinations as "harmonic". But how can you find these "harmonies" if you are not a web designer?
There is a growing number of free online tools designed to help you on this front. You simply have to choose a starting color, and in just a few seconds the tool will display all the colors that perfectly match with that starting color.
What is more, you don't have to go crazy about finding hexa, HTML or RGB codes that correspond to the colors you have just found, because each and every tool will provide you those codes as well.
Why don't you give these color combinations tools a try? It's fun and it really works!
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27) MooColorFinder
MooColorFinder is a online website color generator tool analyzes your web pages and provides you with a color palette of all the colors you have used.
You only need to get the URL of the web page you want to analyze, paste it inside the search filed and hit "Get". the tool will process your request and will give you an outline of some small color boxes where each one represents a color used inside the page. By hovering on the color boxes with you mouse you will get the codes to use in your HTML.
Price: Free.
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26) Color Hunter
Color Hunter is a web-based color palette generator that works by analyzing any image (online or submitted by you) and providing you with the color scheme of that very image.
For each color you get the HYML code so you can easily use the color inside your web projects or brochures. Every image that the tool analyzes keeps being displayed on Color Hunter web page for future reference.
Price: Free.
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25) Pictaculous
Pictaculous is a color palette generator that lets you upload an image from your computer and find all colors used inside it.
The tool gives you the HTML codes of the colors inside the image and uses Kuler and COLOURlovers recommendations to find all matching colors you can harmonize with your image. You can also download a readily-available Adobe Swatch file to use in your projects. Pictaculous works on the iPhone as well.
Price: Free.
