Colour Selector

Colour exploration tools

Preview text

Check readbility when any colour is used with black and white in four foreground and background combinations.

Navigate colour

Explore colours near a specific colour, where you get to define what 'near' means.

Mix colour

Mix varying amounts of all combinations of red, green and blue with a specific colour.

Make swatches

Finely-tune your colour choice by hue, saturation or lightness, or make instant sets of co-ordinated colours.

Blend colour

Blend a colour with its complement and up to six other colours by creating the intermediary colours.

Colour schemes

A summary of different colour schemes. An example of each scheme is shown using the current colour.

Guide to colour on the web

When to use the "safe" palette

An illustrated guide on how to optimise colour use for display in millions of colours whilst not compromising the site when it is displayed in hundreds or thousands of colours.

Using this resource

About this resource

Information about this resource, including an overview of our colour tools, tool short-cuts and calculations.

Palette layouts

Browse a collection of 22 palette layouts for use as clickable palettes in our interactive colour tools.