Links - online colour wheels and other utilities


Choosing the right colour(s) for a piece of computer work is not always easy, and trying to select several additional complimentary colours is often even more difficult.

Interactive colour wheels (and other similar resources) can be a great way to try out colour schemes. They can also an ideal way to play around with colours and attempt to understand how the different colour definaitions used by computers work and interact with each other.


  • Colors On The Web Color Wizard
    • Colors On The Web covers a number of different aspects of colour for web pages and web design. The site also includes their flash based Color Wizard application. All content can also be found at http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/

  • 4096 Color Wheel
    • The 4096 Color Wheel is updated, maintained and hosted on JemimaŐs Chevron.

  • The DHTML Color Calculator
    • The DHTML Color Calculator by Sebastian Bšthin shows selected colour definitions as HSB, RGB, CYM and RGB hex triplet. The selected colour is displayed in the background and a small window demonstartes graphically how the colour is made from RGB mixing.

  • Session Color Calculator
    • Session Color Calculator is a flash based application made available from Session Online School Of Design.

  • Color Schemer Online
    • Color Schemer Online from ColorSchemer offers some of the functions from their commercial and freeware colour based applications which are also available from their website.

  • Limitless Inovation
    • Limitless InovationŐs website includes several colour related online utilities in addition to other useful resources.

  • Marianne's Color Codes
    • MarianneŐs Color Codes (several colour charts which feature the web-safe colours arranged by theme)

  • Easy RGB mathematical formulae
    • The Easy RGB website includes mathematical formulae to enable colour descriptions to be converted from one format to another. There are also several applications on the website which make use of these formulae to calculate colour harmonies and matches as well as to calculate colours.

  • Color synthAxis
    • The Color synthAxis is a bit complicated to use at first, but after reading the instructions (possibly a few times) could be a useful tool to help with colour scheme selection.