According to research from Color Communication:
"Research reveals all human beings make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment , or item within 90 seconds of initial viewing and that between 62% and 90% of that assessment is based on color alone."
Color Basics
Definition by Wikipedia:
"Color (or colour, see spelling differences) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, white, etc. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra."
Color Psychology & Meaning
- Color Psychology
- Color Meaning
- Color symbolism, color and personality, gemstone color & meaning
- Color: Meaning, Symbolism & Psychology
- What does Color Mean?
- How does colour psychology work?
- Color communication & symbolism (animated/interactive)
- The Meaning Behind Colors
- Global Color Symbolism
- Color Symbolism and Terminology
Color Science & Theory
- A Glossary of Color Science
- Color Theory & Mixing: 16 Lessons in Color Theory
- Color Theory Tutorial by Worqx
- Color Science Basics
- Digital Colour Basics
- Color Theory - Some Basic Primer
- Color, Contrast & Dimension - Poynter.org
- Color Theory Basics
- Color Theory: a brief tutorial
- Color Theory by Color Matters
- Colors on the Web - Color Theory for web designers
- Color theory - Wikipedia
Color Combinations and Schemes
- Basic color schemes: Color Theory Introduction
- Colors on the Web - Combining Colors
- COLOURlovers - Palettes
- Choosing color combinations
- Colors Found in Nature
- Colors on the Web - Color Schemes
- Color Schemes blog by Natalie Jost
- Colour harmonies
- Color combinations
- Color Combo Library
- Color Schemer Gallery
- colr.org - play with colors and color schemes
- Kolur - a simple way to browse color palettes
- Web 2.0 Colors
Top 20 Online Color Tools
The Color Wizard
Lets you submit your own base color, and automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.
Spin the Color Wheel
The color wheel randomizes among some 16 million colors.
Color convertor
Online conversion from RGB to CMYK (RGB/CMYK/HSV/HSL/YUV/YIC)
Color Schemer
Generate matching color schemes like never before!
Color Wheel Color Calculator
Free color wheel color calculator. Designers select HTML, RGB, or CMYK color values with this interactive color chart.
ColorBlender
Online tool for color matching and palette design
Color Scheme Generator
This tool will find set of colors you can start with, and it may facilitate your looking for the optimal color palette.
Color Scheme Tool

Adobe Kuler
Helps you explore, create and share color themes.
Color Harmonies tool
A great service to pick up color harmonies, color themes and color complements.
Color Combo Tester
A web color combinations testing tool for web developers.
Color Palette Creator
It will create 10 shades of the base color, located top-left, at varying degrees of opacity.
Color Blender

pic2color
Extracts color schemes from pictures.
Digital Color Wheel

Color Mixer

ColorJack: Sphere
ColorJack is an online Color Scheme Generator used by Graphic Designers, Interior Decorators, ...
Colour Selector

Color synthAxis
Designed to simplify the nightmare of color scheme selectionFree Desktop Color Tools
Books on Colors
- Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design
- The Big Book of Color in Design
- Designer's Color Manual: The Complete Guide to Color Theory and Application
- Color Harmony for the Web. A Guide for creating great Color Schemes On-line.
- Color Logic for Web Site Design
- Color: A Natural History of the Palette
- Designer's Guide to Color 3
- 2 Color Graphics: Unlimited Design Solutions
Other
- COLOURlovers - Color Trends & Palettes
- Spot & Process Colors
- Spot Color
- Spot color
- How To Get Spot Color In A Process Color Print Job
- Macromedia FreeHand - Easy spot color tint creation
- PANTONE Color Suffix differences: C, CV, CVC, CVU, PC, EC
- Pantone Color Guides
- Color Experience
- Color Matters
- Paint Color Trends
- The use of colour
- The RGB Code: The Mysteries of Color Revealed
- Color in Motion
- Hair and Skin Color Charts
- ColorWhore - a directory of nice colors
- Miles Burke - The Web 2.0 Secret Weapon
- Colour Blindness Simulator
- Colors on the Web - Using Colors on the Web
- RGB to Color Name Mapping (Triplet and Hex)
- How paper can critically affect the colour of your printed product
- Complementary color - Wikipedia
- Color Visualizer (interior/exterior)
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