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Colour psychology plays a huge role in the development of user interfaces. It can significantly influence an overall design and how they can affect how people will perceive your design and even their decision-making.

It’s important for designers to pick the right colours that will fit your design’s purpose. Thanksfully there are great colour tools that can help you instantly get a set of colours that you can use for your designs.

Today, I’ve gathered some of the most helpful tools that can help you create your own colour palette easier or even give you ideas and inspiration that help you to grow and mold yourself in coming up with a great design.

1. ColorDrop

ColorDrop

A colour matching tool, that lets you save you favourite colour combinations.

2. Blend

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Blend lets you choose from standard colour palettes (Flat UI, Material Design, etc.) to create a CSS gradient. It’s easy to use and you can quickly grab the code for your projects.

3. Adobe Color CC

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Adobe Color CC (known as ‘Adobe Kuler’) is a web-based color tool that has the essential elements of a great color tool such as creating and saving color palettes, choose various color rules, manually edit RGB values plus more.

4. Palettr

palettr

With this tool you can generate fresh, new color palettes inspired by a theme or a place.

5. Material Palette

material-palette

This tools is for those who using Google’s Material Design,  you simply choose your favourite colours and get your Material Design palette generated and downloadable.

6. LOL Colors

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Curated color palette inspiration.

7. ColorSnapper 2

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ColorSnapper is a macOS colour picker app for designers & developers which makes it easy to collect, adjust, organise and export colour of any pixel on the screen.

8. Color Hunt

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Color Hunt is a social platform for everyone who love colors. Its here to create a curated collection of beautiful colour palettes. All the colour palettes are all made by you, its users, and each creation is being reviewed and hand-picked, so the very best of those get featured on it’s homepage.

9. Color Tab

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A refreshing Chrome extension by Color Hunt that serves you a beautiful color palette each time you open a new tab.

10. ColorFavs

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This tool generates beautiful colour palettes from images, URLs or even randomly. It’s goal is to make it easy for you to create and discover palettes and colours for all of your design needs.

11. Palettable

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With Palettable you can generate beautiful colours palettes, even with no prior design knowledge.

12. Coolors

Coolors

The super fast colour schemes generator where cool designers just hit the spacebar to generate color palettes, then click on a colour to lock it and get amazing colour combinations. The adjustment tools are very accessible and easy to use.

 

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12 Super Tools to Help Your Choose Your Next Colour Palette