The ONLY Colour Theory Video You Ever Need
This video gives a fantastic rundown on:
Intro to colour psychology
How brands & businesses activate audiences with colour
How saturation impacts on perception of colour
How to effectively combine colour
How to efficiently create and apply colour schemes in Adobe Illustrator
How culture impacts on colour choice
Selecting colours for logo design
explore creative color options for your design project
Contrasting - Provides emphasis, emotive effect. Symbolic, vibrant and eye-catching
Warm - Attracts attention, dominates. Defines figure, suggests boldness and energy.
Cool - Recedes, subtle. Suggests ground, calming effect.
Use any of these tools to generate a range of colour palettes to analyse for suitability for your design ideas.Â
Adobe Color: Use Adobe Color to create custom colour palettes by selecting colours manually or using the colour wheel. Explore various colour harmony rules such as complementary, analogous, and triadic to generate harmonious palettes. Adobe Color also provides accessibility options to check contrast ratios for readability.
Coolors: Coolors is a colour scheme generator that allows designers to generate random colour palettes or create custom palettes by adjusting hue, saturation, and brightness. Designers can also upload images to extract colours and create palettes based on them. Coolors include accessibility features to ensure colour contrast compliance.
Paletton: Paletton is a colour scheme designer that offers pre-designed colour palettes based on different colour harmonies. Designers can adjust the base colour and explore complementary, triadic, tetradic, and analogic colour schemes. Paletton provides tools to check colour contrast for accessibility.
Colour Hunt: Color Hunt is a curated collection of beautiful colour palettes created by designers. Browse through the collection to find inspiration and download palettes for use in your projects. Colour Hunt also features a search function to filter palettes based on colour, popularity, and more.
Material Design Palette: Google's Material Design Palette provides a set of predefined colour palettes based on the Material Design guidelines. Designers can choose primary and secondary colours from the palette or create custom combinations. The palette includes options for checking colour accessibility. Particularly useful for UI/UX design.
Picular: Picular is a colour search engine that generates colour palettes based on keywords. Enter a keyword related to your design project, and Picular will generate a colour palette inspired by that keyword. Explore different colour options and save palettes for future use.
ColorHexa: ColorHexa is a comprehensive colour encyclopedia that provides detailed information about colours, including RGB, CMYK, and HEX values. Use ColorHexa to explore colour variations, create custom palettes, and check contrast ratios for accessibility.