Adobe Color
color.adobe.com
Free color palette generator and harmony tool with extract-from-image functionality and an extensive community palette library.
Why it is useful
Adobe Color makes color theory concrete — you can explore complementary, analogous, and split-complementary harmonies interactively, and extract palettes directly from photographs. No Adobe subscription required.
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