Unarguably one of the most important aspects of any design is its colors. Designers create the style of a site, as well as the movement it makes, the emotion it creates, and its purpose based largely upon the color choices they make. Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites.

If you’re going to use color effectively in your designs, you’ll need to know some color concepts and color theory terminology. A thorough working knowledge of concepts like chroma, value and saturation is key to creating your own awesome color schemes. In Part 1: The Meaning of Color of our color theory series, we covered the meanings of different colors. Here, we’ll go over the basics of what affects a given color, such as adding gray, white or black to the pure hue, and its effect on a design, with examples of course.

Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to cultural background. Color theory is a science in itself. Studying how colors affect different people, either individually or as a group, is something some people build their careers on. And there’s a lot to it. Something as simple as changing the exact hue or saturation of a color can evoke a completely different feeling. Cultural differences mean that something that’s happy and uplifting in one country can be depressing in another

Lets face it. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what colors you want to use for your latest web design project. Many do not realize there are places out there to help you along with this process. I have gone ahead and compiled a short list of, what i find to be, the six best places to find a great palette.

As a designer,you may admit that colors are considered the the main component in any designing project. Of course you did try to find colors that could matching your client chosen one to be used  in his project, and of course you did face some difficulties in this situation specially when the chosen color  was not from the main colors that you could find the matching ones immediately.

Color tools application would give you the hand of help for these purposes, specially when you won’t have to search for anything!

all you have to do is giving the application the color of yours and it will make the rest.

Here are about 25 inspiration-stimulating online color palette tools that will make your work easier, faster and more propositional.

What makes a design look coordinated, planned and professional? The answer is: ‘color’.

Not every project needs bland corporate blue to look professional. Planning color means creating a framework that describes which colors to use and how to use them.

Color is the slipperiest design element. “Good” color is so closely tied to elusive things like personal taste and intuition, as well as technical considerations such as contrast and monitor calibration.

But color is vital to content. If you consider a website important enough to spend time refining, then readers will likely consider it important enough to spend time reading. Good color choices make that happen.

In this article we’ll review some techniques to achieve beautiful color palletes for your web designs.

As a designer, color management should be an integral part of your workflow. A website’s color scheme helps shape its identity and therefore should not be carelessly thrown together. Here are 25 online, desktop and iPhone applications to help you live and breathe color management no matter where you are.

There are a lot of Online Color Tools are available on the internet. You can get a free color palettes and pick a right color scheme from these websites for your next design project.

I have collected 20 best and most useful online Online Color Tools. I think you should be already familiar with some of Online Color Tools so you have to find out new ones. if you think i missed something you can tell in the comment box.

Here is the collection of best Online Color Tools. Enjoy!

Retro colors are a great way to give your website an older/vintage feel; it can give your design a little something different from the regular fully saturated colors that you see often in modern-themed designs.

This article is both a showcase of retro-colored themes in existing web designs, as well as a tutorial on how to achieve retro colors using Adobe Photoshop (you’ll learn about five different techniques).

As a designer, it is important to be aware of the trending colors, and how they are being applied in products and work produced today. What really isn’t being discussed by the design world at large though are the limitations being set on color. Color is as free for us to use as the air we breathe… or is it?

The color palette is shrinking. It could affect the foundation of design for everything from websites to fashion. The fate of businesses and billions of dollars ride on choosing the right one. We’ll take a look at how color is becoming the next limited resource.