Color is widely used in design – it allows you to “bring the content to life” – to create a meaningful connection between the elements, to fill the work with emotion and mood. Beginning designers take random colors, but there are ways to use color in a more meaningful way.
Use a known range.
The site brandcolors.net collected more than 500 combinations of colors known brands. Google, Burger King use the same palette in all their products. These brands and their colors are familiar and loved by many. Type the name in the search bar or browse the page, click on the desired brand and color: its code is copied to the clipboard.
Choose a ready-made professional palette
The easiest way is to take a ready-made color combination. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time, because harmonious combinations have been known for a long time. Go to colordrop.io and take your pick. The site has hundreds of professional 4-color palettes. Once you’ve chosen the right one, click and copy the color codes from the panel that opens to the right.
In addition, the service contains a ready-made selection of 24 flat design colors. Click on the left under “Flat Colours” and grab the code for the shade you like.
Determine the color palette of a photo or picture you like
This method is a little more complicated. But also more spectacular.
At coolors.co, find the camera icon in the top bar on the left, click on it. This will open an image upload window.
You can choose a photo or picture with a color scheme you like from your computer, or copy the link into an empty box.
The service will determine the combination of colors (below the uploaded picture).
You can change the individual colors of this palette by marking them and selecting the point on the photo from which you want to take the color.
The “Collage” button saves the resulting palette with color codes to your computer.
The “Auto” button generates new combinations based on the same photo.
Press “Ok” and you will go to the home page of the site for further work with the palette.
The home page of the site is no less functional. Here you can pick up the shades of individual colors or assemble a new palette by replacing individual colors.
Create your own color scheme online
After uploading a photo on the same website coolors.co, you can not only define the color code, but also create your own combinations. To do this, press the space bar – the service automatically creates a combination of 5 colors.
Each color has 4 button icons:
Alternative shades – Shades of color (darker and lighter),
Drag (to move the color left or right on the palette),
Adjust (Adjust tone, saturation, brightness, etc.),
Lock (to fix the color).
The collected palette can be saved as a pdf or png file, sent as a link, etc.