As a designer, I'm always looking for color scheme tools and wheels that are efficient and fun to use. Color Scheme Designer is the most interactive and fun one to use I have found thus far. It also has numerous features for a free color scheme tool as well.
Dislikes:
- Absence of Reset Button: the only way to reset the colors and start fresh is to refresh the page from the browser refresh button
- Overlay Interaction: certain examples pop-up as an overlay (notably the light color & dark color page examples). These pop-ups lack a 'close' button. The only way to close out is by clicking beside the overlay so by clicking on the backdrop or by pressing on the 'ESC' key which wouldn't be evident for the average user.
Likes:
- Interactive, clean interface design, detailed features.
- Several Color Models: choose whether you want a monochromatic, complimentary, tetrad, or analogic color scheme. Do you want to use one or several colors and how they should contrast each other.
- Color Vision Simulation: shows you how people with color deficiencies will see the chosen palette and what percentages of people have the deficiency. (A dislike is that the percentages lack information on whether the percentage relates to the world population, a specific country, or a continent.)
- Export: you can export the color palette (hue blocks, color list and hexidecimal values) as: html and css, xml, text, Photoshop Palette and finally GIMP Palette
- Undo - Redo buttons: enables you to easily undo or redo a color change you've made while tweaking your color scheme
- Random Option: random option gives you ideas of palettes to use if you're lacking inspiration
- Adjust the Theme: You can adjust specific hues in the theme
- Light Page & Dark Page examples of the scheme once chosen
- Show or Hide Tool Tips: in case you need a refresher or what a 'tetrad color model' is.
Another color scheme tool I've used in the past is ColorBlender.
