Adobe Kuler: Color Palette Generation
Adobe has recently introduced Labs.Adobe.com where they introduce valuable tools and get feedback from users about their initial releases of some of their products. I recently wrote about their handy Spry Framework, which looks like the easiest to learn JavaScript framework on the market. They have also released one of the best color palette generation utilities I have seen to date entitled kuler. Kuler takes cues from many other popular color palette utilities, and in many ways ups the ante. It emulates the community sharing of palettes seen at Colour Lovers (by the way, they have a new site), offers all of the palette options for analogous, monochromatic, complimentary, and triadic systems seen on Color Scheme Generator 2, and allows you to mix and copy RGB, Hex and CMYK values like Color Mixers. Kuler displays swatches in large areas on a dark background allowing you to see them much better than its competitors. It’s a beautiful system, and a great asset to any designer operating in any medium.
As a bonus, they also offer some useful links to color theory resources in the links section.