Color Pickers/Converters

I'm always having a hard time finding the right color picker or converter online. Sometimes I run into some that I find very usefull, but next time that I want to use it, it's lost in the sea of bookmarks.

Therefore, I google a little, tried various color pickers and converteres and here is the list of the ones I found most usefull.

1.) Zoltech Color Converter - you can select color name and see its RGB or HEX code, or you can write RGB code and convert it into HEX code (vice versa). Each time you select a color, background changes into that color. Handy and simple to use.

2.) PCMan Color Converter - this one has a HEX to RGB color converter, RGB to HEX code color converter, RGB to VRML color converter, as well as Web Browser Safe Color converter which chooses the closest web safe color to the one that you entered. Nice, but with one big minus. You can not visualize the color you're entering, nor the web safe color which he suggest until you put it into your css code or wherever you want to use it.

3.) Forret Color Conversion - Offers CMYK, RGB, HEX converter + shows websafe color next to the one you chosen and a matching greyscale tone + gradient from chosen color to white or black + complete RGB color chart with official names. Definitely my No. 1.

4.) Draac.Com's Converter - Color Chart, Color Cube, Rainbow text and Color Converter HEX/RGB. Since I am a visual type of person, I like this page cause when I choose the color I want, it shows as background color. Among these color tools, page offers lots of other usefull tools, so it's good to mingle around a bit and see if there0s something you'll need.

5.) ColorMatch - Ok, this is not ordinary color picker or color converter, but it's usefull when you can't decide which colors would match with the one that you like to put on your website.

6.) ZSP Super Color Chart - Great tool - pick a color of your text and color of your background and see how they match together.

7.) PageTutor ColorPicker - My first color picker, so it deserves a place on this list. Pick a color of your text, link, visited link, active link, hover link and color of your background. Bad thing is that you can't write your hex code, it only supports 216 websafe color chart.

8.) Color Schemer - very simple and nice design. You pick a color by hex code, rgb value or from color-chart directly on site and he shows chosen color as well as 16 matching colors. Special bonus is that you can choose to lighten or darken complete scheme.

9.) Color Scheme 2 - I love it. You can pick a color that you prefer and choose between Mono, Contrast, Triad, Tetrad and Analogic Color Scheme as well as lighten, darker, pastel pallette and so on.... According to that he gives you color pallette.

10.) Dr Pete Jones color calculator - you can choose to enter HEX code, RGB or HSV value and find the others. Background swithces to color you choose. Special tool is that you can choose sample colors from list, or click random button.

11.) DeGraeve color picker - just a simple tool to write in hex code and find 16 matching colors. Nothing special, but this site offers some other tools like color pallete generator, favicon maker, buisness card generator etc.

And for the end, this is not actually a color picker nor converter, but it's worth to see: KrazyDad

That's about it. I hope you'll find this post usefull since there's a tons of color pickers around the web and it's really hard to choose which one to use.

Please, feel free to comment or to add more links of your favourite color pickers/converters etc.