There is a wealth of colour scheme generators on the net, but by far the easiest and most intuitive one to use is Color Scheme Generator 2by pixy, The interface is very intuitive and easy to understand. You can also look at different schemes based on 5 different colour relationships (monochrome, contrast, triad, tetrad, and analogic). There is also a feature which allows you to see how a given colour scheme would look to a person with colourblindness.
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Some links to Colour Tools
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There is a wealth of colour scheme generators on the net, but by far the easiest and most intuitive one to use is Color Scheme Generator 2 by pixy, The interface is very intuitive and easy to understand. You can also look at different schemes based on 5 different colour relationships (monochrome, contrast, triad, tetrad, and analogic). There is also a feature which allows you to see how a given colour scheme would look to a person with colourblindness.
Color scheme generator:
For more information about colour and accessbility, the following resources would be worth investigating:
WC3 Web Content and Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
For a good description of colour spaces (RGB colour spaces and HSB and HLS colour spaces), check out the following:
Color Picker 2.0 Scroll down the page for the description.