The combination of colors, sometimes, is not easy. That is why, sometimes, you may need an "extra", a helper to advise you and tell you what the best combinations are.
But how would it be possible? Fortunately, you have the apps and websites to base your choice of colors on, as well as create a palette of shades that blend with each other. Wait, Don't you know what we're talking about? In that case, here we leave you some of the best apps and websites on color combinations. Look at them.
Coolors
Coolors is one of the most widely used and well-known apps in the sector because it offers the perfect color combination. You can use it to create consistent color palettes for your designs, logos, web pages, presentations, and much more.
As for the tool, it allows you to generate random or custom color combinations, and adjust the lightness, saturation, and other parameters of each color. You can also save your favorite color palettes and share them to work on those shades that you have chosen.
We have told you that it is an app, but in reality it can also be used as an extension for web browsers.
colorsinspo
Colorsinspo is another color matching tool. Actually, it will help you create color schemes but it offers some unique features and is the reason why many choose this one over the previous one (or the ones we'll talk about later).
One of those unique, and also one of the most useful features of Colorsinspo is the ability to search for color palettes based on keywords. For example, you can search for color palettes for "spring," "minimal," "vintage," and many other categories. You can also filter the color palettes by number of colors, lightness, and saturation.
Another cool item to look out for is the ability to see how colors look in different settings, such as text, background, border, and more. In other words, you will have a first-person view to see how the color combination you have chosen would look in your design. This will help you to know if you have really chosen well, if there is something to change or if they can positively or negatively influence the user experience.
Again you will have both app and browser extension.
colorspace
Here's another tool you can use to define color spaces and convert values between them. In other words, Color Space allows you to explore different color spaces, including RGB, HSL, HSV, LAB, XYZ, and CMYK. You can put the color values in any of these color spaces and the tool will show you the corresponding values in the rest of the spaces. In this way, defining the main one, you would have all the others.
Plus, you can adjust the lightness, saturation, and other parameters of each color in real time and see how they affect other spaces. For example, imagine that you put a green color. You will get the other spaces, but you decide that that green has to be more subdued, so if you change it, the other colors will automatically do so as well.
Adobe color
Adobe is world famous. Not just because of Photoshop, but because of many tools developed for designers and creatives. In this case, with Adobe Color you can create custom color schemes, but with some additional features. And it is that you can choose between different color rules, such as analogous, complementary, monochromatic, triadic and more, to generate coherent color combinations. You can also adjust the lightness, saturation, and other parameters of each color.
Perhaps what you might like most about using this tool is the fact that it integrates with other Adobe products, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. This will save you a lot of time as you can save your custom color palettes directly to your Creative Cloud Library and access them in other Adobe programs. Another way to do it is by importing an image and using the "Extract" option to generate a color palette with the ones in that photo.
Happy Hues
Another tool that you can use for color matching is this. It offers you a series of color palettes focused on web applications and webs with five colors each. Of course, you can choose between several, although what you cannot do is customize it (for example with a specific color). And best of all, it also gives you an overview of how these would look on a website, an application, etc.
As for the palettes, you can filter them by specific colors. You have many to choose from, so to get a general idea of what kind of colors you should choose, it won't hurt at all.
Color Hunt
In the case of Color Hunt you will have a large collection of color palettes selected by designers. These are classified by popularity, publication date or by the colors they contain.
Each color palette has four or five colors combining harmoniously and attractively. And if you like one you can download it in different formats, such as PNG, SVG, SCSS and more, which makes them easy to use in your design projects.
Another interesting feature is its “Palette Generator”. This tool allows you to generate a custom color palette from an image you upload. Ideal for designing based on the visual identity of the brand or company you work with.
UIGradients
Finally, you have UIGradients. As its name indicates, it will allow you to have a large collection of color gradients for your projects. In this way, with them you can create smooth transitions between the different colors.
Among his collection, you're going to find soft gradients, but there will also be a selection of bolder and more vibrant ones.
As with the previous tool, here the gradients are also classified by popularity, date of publication or by the colors they contain. Once you choose the one you like, you can download them in different formats (the most common are CSS, SVG and PNG). And you can even see how they would look on the designs before making it.
Do you know more applications and websites for color combinations? We read you in comments.