You have problems choosing colors and fonts ??
Here you have some great tools :
Color Chooser :
Color Scheme Generator 2 : it gives you an idea for choosing background, foreground, text and box colors.
And you can know how many people with vision problems can view your colors. (a great step for handicapped persons).
Site Pro Central : You can choose complimentary colors and adjust the brightness and many other options.
Color Schemer Online 2 : This is one gives you HEX and RGB with many a “lighten” and “darken” button to adjust the brightness of the color you need. It can also be downloaded to your PC or MAC.
Color Chooser from Emory : This tool give a real idea of the color you’re about to choose with its great preview. (:( but you don’t have all the colors you want !)
Akgupta Java Color Chooser : With its simple interface (but bad design …
) this tool has the ability to show you a colored text within a colored background ! Very useful when it comes to use colored text on a dark background !
Fonts :
Smashing Magazine : I checked this great post about fonts. More than 40 excellent fonts for your everyday web design !
Type Now : This site offers fonts from Movies, Games, Music Bands, Brands … (for example you will see fonts for Metallica, Addam’s Family, CNN … ).
Show Font : My first resource of fonts when I began to design web pages. You choose the font you want with a simple interface and you download it within a click !
Simply the Best : This website provide free categorized fonts, which lets u find easier what you want if your building a specific web page (”Creaminal” is one of my favorite with its Web 2.0 style).
Advanced Font Viewer : It’s a desktop software that let you compare all of the fonts you want, changing the style, the size …
A great tool but it needs a registration. ![]()