Color Thesaurus

There are several tools on the internet for finding just the right shade of color or finding the ideal color combinations.

HP has an “On-Line Color Thesaurus” which isn’t much to look at, but offers decent results. (via Core77)

Adobe offers a more comprehensive Flash tool called Kuler (pronounced… “color”) that finds complementary and contrasting colors. This is something of a social network as well, because you can formulate a swatch and make it available to other Kuler users. It’s a really fun tool to play around with… kinda like NameVoyager, which is an amazing tool that determines the popularity of baby names with respect to time. Go ahead and search “Paris” to see how many people want to name their kid after Ms. Hilton.