[WSG] Colour Scheme aids

[Michael Kear]

Not sure if this is off-topic or not.  If it is, I apologise now.  But I hope it isn’t off-topic, so I’ll continue … .   Does anyone have a favourite colour scheme tool?    What I’m looking for is a tool for design-challenged klutzes like me (well ok it’s actually FOR me.  I admit it!) where I can take a couple of given colours such as in a logo, and create a suggested colour scheme for a site?  With alternative contrasting or complementary colours.   I can spend as long trying to work out colours as I can on the whole rest of the designing process.  I have read plenty of tutorials on the subject, so that’s not what I’m looking for.  The trouble is, every tutorial I read makes it more obvious that I’m a ditz when it comes to colour and design. (Something my wife has been telling me for 30 years).  I get more and more confused as I read more.  What I’d like to find is something I saw once years ago and can’t find any more … I’d like to enter say two colours that I get from a logo, and click to get a few colour scheme suggestions that would work together with those colours.   From there I could refine the lighter and darker colours I need using my own blender tool on my web site.    (If you haven’t seen that, I’m really proud of it.  It’s the first design tool I’ve ever made.  It’s at http://afpwebworks.com/ColourSchemer/index.cfm  - you put in the starting colour, and the finishing colour, and the number of steps you want up to 20 and it’ll give you the values of the 20 steps from one colour to the other, with blocks and text in those colours. )   Anyway, can anyone help me out with a colour scheme design tool please?     Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com .com, .net, .org etc domains start at A$20/year