Windows only: MouseZoom is a tiny portable tool that functions both as a screen magnifier and a colour picker. More »
Whether you’re looking for some help designing the colour scheme of a web site, a blog, or a house, you can’t do much better than colr.org, a site that loads random Flickr images and intuitively parses the colours out of the photos to give you the best combinations possible. You’ve got quite a few options here: you can load your own image for a little colour play, pick random colour schemes compiled by other colr.org users, even choose a specific web site to copy colours from.
colr.orgAll platforms with Firefox: Designers will love the usefulness of ColorZilla, a Firefox extension that provides colour readings in RGB and hexadecimal format. For diehard Firefox users who surf the net often, this is a convenient alternative to standalone application Color Cop. We’ve briefly mentioned ColorZilla before, but I find it a blessing worth its very own post when it comes to grabbing the colour data quickly and easily without having to open another application. ColorZilla’s a free download that works with and wherever Firefox does.
ColorZilla
