5 tools to work with color in web design

Unless you work in a hipsterish company that only does black and white, as a designer, you must constantly work with color. Here are a few tools and website to help you out.

1. Material Color

The Material Design website is THE reference when it comes to anything about using Material Design elements and style. The color section of the website provides very useful tools for the designers who want to go the Material Design route, the main tool being the appropriately named Color Tool.

2. The Flat UI Color Picker

For a while, Flat Design Style was seen as a trend that would go away quickly. It didn’t. I can’t count the number of times I’ve used this awesome Flat UI Color Picker for my own web designs.

3. UI Gradients

A simple tool to create gorgeous CSS gradients very quickly. Browse the available gradients or create your own, then just get the CSS code in one click. You can also rotate your gradients as you wish, and download it as a JPG file if that’s what you need.

4. Color Hunt

Get regular color palette inspiration with Color Hunt, you can even receive it by email or add the Chrome extension.

5. CSS Colours

Browse CSS colours and choose the right one for your project. Simplest website ever, you scroll the colours and copy-paste the ones you need. It’s also possible to arrange the colours by gradation.