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Posted by jasonniebauer
jasonniebauer
28,801 Points

Creating a CSS Color Scheme Application

Hello everyone!

I really enjoy selecting colors for designing websites, but I am constantly using color palette tools from other providers. I am interested in designing my own color palette selector to allow users to choose the colors they wish to use. I feel this is a great tool to build for others, but I am looking forward to learning how such an application is built. I believe that Javascript will be used for the functionality, but I'm a little stuck on getting started. Can anyone give me some tips or resources for learning to how create such an application? I have listed some inspiring color palette tools below to give you an idea of the direction for the project :) Thanks in advance for any insight!

http://jxnblk.com/spectral/

http://color.hailpixel.com/

2 Answers

Dave Evans
Dave Evans
13,160 Points
Dave Evans
Dave Evans
13,160 Points

What I use is https://kuler.adobe.com. It is sort of re-creating the wheel, but if you do create something post it here. I'd love to check it out.

jasonniebauer
jasonniebauer
28,801 Points
jasonniebauer
jasonniebauer
28,801 Points

Dave, Thanks for sharing! That's exactly what I want to do. I want to learn how to recreate the wheel, spend some time exploring and studying the wheel, and then dish out a new and improved wheel! The task may be past my knowledge currently, but it's something I have been wanting to learn how to make. I believe I might need to use Node.js, but I'm still working towards learning intermediate Javascript right now.