If you’re a graphic designer, web designer or photographer and you’re looking for original or extremely well fitted colour schemes, have a look online at Adobe Kuler and you’ll be hooked in the first five minutes.
All the themes contain five colours and you can filter by newest, most popular and highest rated. You can also search by keyword, helping you find colour schemes for specific styles of design. It’s an excellent quick stop resource for quickly finding colour scheme inspiration for either
graphic or web design.
If you’re looking for something that you just can’t find using the themes page, then click on the ‘create’ tab, and you’re taken to the following page:
You select your base colour (displayed as the middle of the five colour boxes) and move it around on the colour chart. As you move the base colour, the other four colours move with it and can be set using any of the following parameters (available for selection to the left of the colour wheel):
- Analogous
- Monochromatic
- Triad
- Complementary
- Compound
- Custom
So when you move the central colour the other four will stay set to that spacing, allowing you an analogous colour scheme centred around your base colour.
Once you’ve selected a colour scheme you like, you can save it and upload it for others to use (requires
signing up to the Adobe site). If you’d rather not let other use it you don’t need to save it, and underneath each of the five colours it provides you with the six digit hexadecimal code for that colour, meaning you can easily recreate the colour schemes in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.
I can spend hours on the Kuler site just looking at different color combinations.
You can find the Kuler tool online at http://kuler.adobe.com/
