Color Resources
Category: Colors
There are plenty of places to find color inspiration and selection help catering to web designers. While many may not apply to interior designers, there are plenty of tools that can help as well as a few specifically made for interior design. We’ve put together a short list of sites and tools for color inspiration and selection help.
Sherwin Williams – The Color of Inspiration
An interesting tool that lets you pick from a group of photos (you can upload your own or choose from other users’) and extract the color palette. Each palette has user ratings and the color codes if you want to buy the paints.
Not as slick as Sherwin Williams’ tool, Color Simplicity allows you to choose a room and change the colors of the wall, trim, etc. It’s a useful tool to visualize your color combinations.
Similar to the previous two tools, Behr’s ColorSmart tool allows you to choose a palette and then test it on either a preloaded photo or your own.
COLOURlovers is a community site for designers. It’s one of the most useful sites on the internet for designers, and is one that I use often. It contains user submitted palettes, colors, and patterns – all of ver high quality.
Flickr is a huge photo sharing site with lots of pictures for inspiration. A quick check of some of the flickr groups for color brought some great results. Among the most useful are Color Theory Craft, Catchy Colors, Primary Color(s), Mediterranean Colors, Just Colors, Colour Mafia.
Pantone is a worldwide leader in color and offers a bi-annual color report.
With this tool you can upload your own photo, or use one from flickr, and get the average color of the photo.
RGB color mixer that generates a palette.
Extracts a palette from any given picture.
A less robust version of COLOURlovers.
Meant for use by web designers, this tool is pretty good for choosing complementary and contrasting colors.
