Resources | Design Tools

Updated 11.27.2007

Kuler: Adobe Labs has released an incredibly useful and well designed color palette creator that beats the rest.
Contrast checker: evalute contrast between type and background
Color Scheme Generator 2: My favorite color scheme generation tool for its control and variety of system generation.
Color Blender: A good, simple color utility, which exports to Illustrator and Photoshop
Colour Lovers: Color palette generation in a social setting
Color Palette Creator: Give it a base color, it will give you a color palette
The Man in Blue: Technicolor: Palette shown in context of a CSS layout
4096Color Wheel: A different approach to a color wheel
Colr.org: Generate color systems from a photo or randomly
Color Mixers: A staple in color generation systems

Typetester: Compare web type in various faces, sizes, etc. One of my all time favorites
Veer: Wonderful selection of fonts
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
Usable Type
Identifont: Utility for identifying a font
Type Navigator: Visual font search system
Font Explorer: Mac font book application
Font Agent Pro: OS X font book
Character Encoding Chart

Browser Cam: Amazing! Test your site in all browsers on all platforms at same time!
iCapture: Test your site in a Safari emulator
ieCapture: Test your site in an IE emulator
Screen Size Tester: Test your site at various screen resolutions

Aarron Walter