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by lubujackson 4449 days ago
Maybe this is useful, but I'd like to see a little bit of info on each palette as to WHY it was generated the way it was generated. The palette you need for a pie chart is much different than one you need for a website.

For web site palettes, I like to poke around on http://www.colourlovers.com for inspiration. http://colorschemedesigner.com helps with finding appropriately distanced colors that work nicely together (set colorspace to Opaltone colors to find a nice palette) and there is always http://www.colorhexa.com when I just want to quickly darken or lighten a color.

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Sometimes I'll browse through designs on http://dribbble.com/, when I see a design where I like the colors I'll click on it and it'll actually show me a nice palette of all colors in the design. What's nice about it is since these designs were done by great designers the palette almost always works as-is which is quite nice. :)