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HTML Color Picker

Not exactly to chose the best-looking colors schemes, but rather to convert colors codes between the various formats

Hex <-> RGB <-> HSL

(but look at the left menu: you also have colors palettes and other more graphical tools)

Disciplines: Web design, Graphic design, UI design, Front-end development.
Free alternative to Adobe Color, Coolors.
HTML Color Picker compared with Adobe Color and Coolors
HTML Color PickerAdobe ColorCoolors
Main purpose: Reading and converting a single colour. You pick a colour from a palette image or type a value, then read it as HEX, RGB and HSL for use in HTML and CSS.Main purpose: Building a coordinated scheme from a base colour. The tool is organised around colour rules, not around converting one value between notations.Main purpose: Generating and saving whole palettes. Single value conversion is secondary to browsing and editing a set of colours.
Colour harmony support: Limited to lighter and darker shades of the chosen hue, with links to a shade tool and a colour mixer. There is no harmony rule engine.Colour harmony support: Offers monochromatic, complementary, analogous, triadic and split-complementary rules applied to a base colour, which suits systematic scheme design.Colour harmony support: Produces palettes of up to 5 colours on the free plan and up to 10 on Pro. The listed features focus on browsing and editing palettes.
Accessibility checks: No contrast or colour vision checks are listed on the picker page. It only shows sample black and white text on the selected colour.Accessibility checks: Includes a contrast checker based on WCAG ratios and a preview of the palette under several types of colour blindness.Accessibility checks: Palette contrast checks are listed as a Pro feature, so they are not part of the free plan.
Account and cost: The picker page states no price and needs no sign-in. The surrounding site promotes paid plans, courses and certificates.Account and cost: Starts with a free sign-up call to action, and palettes can be saved to a personal library for reuse in other creative projects.Account and cost: The free plan has no time limit but caps saved palettes at 10 and shows ads. Pro is a paid plan and removes those limits.
When to choose it: Choose it for a quick notation conversion while writing CSS, with no account and no setup.When to choose it: Choose it when you need a rule-based scheme with built-in accessibility checks.When to choose it: Choose it when you want to iterate on many palettes and organise them into projects.

Topics covered: HTML Color Picker, color conversion, Hex, RGB, HSL, color codes, color palettes, graphical tools, color representation, web design, color theory, user interface, ISO 9241, ISO 12647, ISO 3664, IEC 61966, and ISO 11064..

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