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There are a lot of online color tools.  And while researching an article on color-related websites for an upcoming article for the National Quilting Association’s quarterly journal, I discovered one called Color Sphere that I enjoyed and wanted to share. To quote, “Sphere uses basic color theory in order to automatically provide you with visually appealing colors.”  They also call it “an online color theory visualizer.”

By selecting one of the formulas, such as complementary or split-complementary or even clash, you can see how a selected color or colors will interact.

The tool also allows you to select a formula and simulate how the colors will look under different forms of colorblindness.

You can view the full spectrum, web smart, or web safe colors.  The above is the web safe palette.  While you cannot control the size of the swatch or mix colors such as a pastel with a heavily saturated color, it’s an interesting tool.

I was happy to learn that this tool, created by Mudcube and minus the sliders, is also available as a free Macintosh widget to download and add to your Dashboard tools.
Click here to download the Dashboard Widget from Apple.

ColorSchemer, Design in Harmony, also offers a free application for Windows users called ColorPix and another widget for Mac users called Galleria. Windows users can also download Just Color Picker from Anny Studio.  It that allows you to select a particular pixel under your mouse and transform it into different color formats and then select different color harmonies.

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