Choosing the Right Color
Color plays a significant role in graphic design, web design, and other creative projects. Choosing the right color palette can make or break a design, and finding the right colors can be a time-consuming and challenging task.
Adobe Color, formerly known as Adobe Kuler, is a well-known color tool and community that allows users to create, explore, and share color palettes for use in design projects. However, there are many alternatives to Adobe Color that offer similar or additional features for creating and exploring color palettes.
Here we’ll take a closer look at Adobe Color and five of its popular alternatives, including Coolors, Paletton, Color Hunt, Canva Color Palette Generator, and ColorSpace.
Color Palette Generators
Adobe Color
Adobe Color, formerly known as Adobe Kuler, is a color tool and community created by Adobe Systems. It allows users to create, explore, and share color palettes for use in design projects. The tool is available as a web app and as an integrated feature in Adobe Creative Cloud applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
With Adobe Color, users can create color palettes based on various color rules such as complementary, monochromatic, triad, and more. They can also create custom color palettes by selecting individual colors, adjusting the brightness, saturation, and hue, and saving the palette. The tool also offers features for exploring and discovering new color palettes, such as the ability to search for palettes by keywords, view popular palettes, and browse through curated collections.
Adobe Color also allows users to export color palettes in various formats for use in different design applications, such as .ase (Adobe Swatch Exchange) files for use in Adobe Creative Cloud applications or .ai files for use in Adobe Illustrator.
Coolors
Coolors is a popular color generator tool that allows users to create color palettes using a variety of color rules, and save and export them for use in design projects. The tool is available as a web app and as a mobile app.
With Coolors, users can generate color palettes using a variety of color rules such as complementary, triad, tetrad, and more. They can also create custom color palettes by selecting individual colors, adjusting the brightness, saturation, and hue, and saving the palette. The tool offers features for exploring and discovering new color palettes, such as the ability to browse through user-generated palettes or use the “explore” feature to view randomly generated color palettes.
Coolors also allows users to export color palettes in various formats, such as .svg or .png files for use in different design applications.
Paletton
Paletton is a color tool that lets users create and modify color palettes using a color wheel interface, and generate complementary colors and color schemes. The tool is available as a web app.
With Paletton, users can generate color palettes by selecting a base color on the color wheel, and modifying the hue, saturation, and brightness to create different shades and tints. The tool also offers features for generating complementary colors, triadic colors, and other color schemes based on color theory principles. Users can also save and share their color palettes, or export them in various formats for use in different design applications.
Paletton also offers advanced features such as the ability to simulate color blindness, and to view the contrast ratio of different color combinations for accessibility purposes.
Color Hunt
Color Hunt is a community-driven color palette website that provides a large collection of curated color palettes submitted by designers from around the world. The website is available as a web app.
With Color Hunt, users can browse through a large collection of curated color palettes, search for palettes by keywords, view popular palettes, or filter palettes by color rule or color family. Users can also save and export color palettes for use in design projects.
Color Hunt also offers features for exploring and discovering new color palettes, such as the ability to view color palettes submitted by other users or to participate in design challenges.
Canva Color Palette Generator
Canva is a design platform that includes a color tool called the Canva Color Palette Generator. The tool allows users to generate color palettes based on uploaded images or by selecting individual colors. The tool is available as a web app.
With the Canva Color Palette Generator, users can upload an image and have the tool automatically generate a color palette based on the colors in the image. Users can also create custom color palettes by selecting individual colors, and the tool offers features for adjusting the brightness, saturation, and hue of the colors. Users can save and export their color palettes in various formats for use in design projects.
The Canva Color Palette Generator also includes features for exploring and discovering new color palettes, such as the ability to browse through user-generated palettes or use the “explore” feature to view randomly generated color palettes.
ColorSpace
ColorSpace is a web-based color tool that lets users create, save, and share custom color palettes with others, and generate color schemes based on color theory principles. The tool is available as a web app.
With ColorSpace, users can generate color palettes based on various color rules such as complementary, monochromatic, triad, and more. They can also create custom color palettes by selecting individual colors, adjusting the brightness, saturation, and hue, and saving the palette. The tool offers features for exploring and discovering new color palettes, such as the ability to browse through user-generated palettes or view popular palettes.
ColorSpace also allows users to export color palettes in various formats for use in different design applications, and to share their color palettes with others via a shareable link. The tool also includes features for generating color schemes based on color theory principles such as analogous, split-complementary, and more.
In Summary
These color tools and generators offer a range of features and functionalities for creating and exploring color palettes for use in various design projects. Users can choose the tool that best suits their needs and preferences, based on factors such as ease of use, availability of features, and compatibility with different design applications.
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