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A friend pointed me in the direction of another colour generator a while back, and I only just found the link again. ColorToy 2.0 is a rather nifty Flash-based generator which takes an RGB or Hex input, and generates 8 complementary colours. Each swatch is also clickable, which is a nice touch.

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Adobe’s kuler is quite a nice online and offline tool for managing and sharing colour palettes which can then be used in Adobe applications. It requires an Adobe ID to use.

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When I am making websites I find the “graphic design” part harder than the “coding” part. I can tell what looks good and what doesn’t, but coming up with colour schemes from scratch is something I’m not an expert at. DeGraeve.com has some pretty nice tools to help out with generating colour schemes: Color Palette Generator returns hex values based on a photograph, and Color Picker returns related shades for other hues.

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