Color Picker for Bloggers and Designers

Here’s a little help for my non-artist blogger buddies. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out which colors would look good together when you’re designing something for the web. Well, I found a cool online tool which helps you create color schemes for your website, blog, or any other electronic design that you might be working on. It’s called ColorJack and I’ve been fiddling with it for a few days.

When you visit the site, it presents you with a bunch of colored tiles. Look for a color you’d like to start with and scan the tiles for it. Hover your mouse over your chosen color and you get a flash preview of several other colors that would work well together with your base color. The image to the left here shows a color set I got when I picked the “Game Dame Yellow” tile. (There were many others with the same yellow, but I’m only showing one example.)

If you click on a tile, you’ll get a page which shows you all the colors in that scheme and allows you to tweak them a bit. Maybe that purple is too dark for you? Lighten it up or desaturate it a bit. When you’re done, you can even save your set for others to use. (Click the image to the right to see it full size.)

After you finish editing your colors, you can use the hex codes above each color box to accurately represent those colors in your blog design! Totally cool.

Like EntreCard, it’s been making me wish I had a self-hosted blog so I could make any color scheme I want. Of course, with as much time as I spend goofing around with the colors, I’d probably never have time to blog!