Free Resources for Education

Colour Contrast Visualiser Website
The Colour Contrast Visualiser allows you to visualise good colour combinations on a Photoshop style colour picker. Could be very useful for helping students, who have dyslexia, pick their preferred text/background colour combination.

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Aviary Website
Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications including an image editor, effects editor, vector editor and swatch editor. Image markup and audio remix is also available. Integration with Google Apps provided.

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Kuler Website
Kuler is a web-hosted application for generating colour themes. With Kuler you can experiment quickly with colour variations and browse thousands of themes created by the Kuler community.

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Color Schemer Online Website
Color Schemer helps you to create color schemes. You enter one color (RGB or HEX value) or click on the Color Palette given and the complimentary color scheme is automatically produced. The schemes can be lightened or darkened.

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GenoPal Palettes Website
GenoPal Palettes generates colour palettes from any picture that is uploaded to the site. Images from Flickr can also be used. Just hover over the palette to view the colour's hexadecimal code.

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Colorspire Website
Use Colospire to quickly create your color schemes online. Use the color wheel to find analogous colors, complementary colors, triad or tertiary colors. Create and preview your colour combinations witht the color scheme creator.

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ColorBlender Website
ColorBlender is an online tool for color matching and palette design! Simply choose a preferred color and a 6-color matching palette (a "blend") will be automatically calculated.

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