Using a matching color palette is an easy way to bring some professional and appealing look to your website design. But usually the problem is to choose out the colors to use and many also feel overwhelmed to learn in the amount of information about color theory’s – and others simply don’t have taste.

Don’t worry. As usual, the help is out there, on the Internet.

If you search “color in webdesign” on Google you will get a huge result of resources of various quality – and in a normal Google manner a lot of them are really bad and a waste of time. One of the resources stand out: COLOURlovers – Color Trends + Palettes.

COLOURlovers: “A resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews”.

This resource helps you in an easy way to find a color palette for your website and they have a huge selection to choose from. You can for example go in on an individual palette you like and see the HEX and RGB values for each of the colors.

There is also the possibility to see what palettes are popular amongst other users and different color trends – everything presented in a way to make it easier for you to choose your own color palette, or maybe even try to compose one by yourself.

COLOURlovers is an international community of designers and artists of all kinds who search for color inspiration, ideas and feedback – and the registration is completely free.

The video above is by cgorrill, and he has other videos about webdesign worth a look.

• COLOURlovers – Color Trends + Palettes