What will the world be like without colors? (Pleasantville, anyone?) One thing's for sure, you never have to worry  about wearing mis-matched socks to work again anymore! 
Colors plays an important part in human expression. Just like music is to a musician's ears, colors stirs the very soul of an artist. Colors not only beautify the world around us, it also helps us make decisions, sway our thinkings, differentiate between good and bad, helps us stands out, gives us warnings, changes the mood of our surroundings and calm or aggravates our souls.
All colors comes from light and all are equally important in painting the world that we see today. Here is a list of great color generation tools that we have picked out to help you utilize the power of colors and paint the magic into your design masterpieces!

COLOURlovers

It's an exciting love affair with colors! Be adventurous and try out new and unique color combinations and experiment with different color themes at your finger tips. And the best part of it all, be inspired by the thousands of color themes contributed by the active global community of colourlovers out there! Word has it that two of the members met and fell in love on the colorlovers community and got married!

Cool Features :

• Upload a photo and extract the colors into a palette
• Browse/Create color patterns from user created color palettes.
• Download palette as Adobe Swatch Exchangefile, Photoshop Swatches File, Illustrator Colors, HTML or zip
• Forums and blogs discussing about latest color trends in different design industries
• Store to buy various merchandise based on colorlover’s color palettes

ColorBlender

In my humble opinion, ColorBlender is one of the easiest and useful color matching tools out there. Just pick one color and ColorBlender will automatically generate 5 additional matching colors for you! And they always looks so colorlicious!

Cool Features :

• Choose one color and it auto generates a nice color scheme for you
• Download as Photoshop Color Table or Illustrator Colors
• Send the blend to your friends through email
• Save a blend online and load it for future reference

Color Scheme Designer

Some color generation tools are way too cool and complicated for us right brained folks. Color Scheme Designer however, manage to not only look cool but is packed with useful features that serves to simplify, not complicate the color selection process.

Cool Features :

• Easy to use color scheme generation by color rules and even the saturation, brightness and contrast color schemes.
• The Undo/Redo button comes in very handy indeed
• Export color swatches as HTML+CSS, XML, Text, Photoshop or GIMP palette
• Visual simulation for Normal vision and Color deficiency vision

Pictaculous

A minimalistic and fuss-free approach to color palette generation. Just upload a photo of your choice and presto!

Cool Features :

• Color palette generation based on an image
• Extra helpful suggestions from Kuler and ColorLovers
• Download theme as a Adobe color swatch
• Works with your phone, take a photo and email to colors@mailchimp.com and wait a few minutes to get a reply!

Contrast-A

Do you know that some 8% of the population has some form of color blindness, and by choosing the wrong colors, you can make your page virtually unreadable for them. Thus, you should make sure that there is a strong contrast between a text and its background. Comes Contrast-A!

Cool Features :

• Provides a color deficiency simulation chart that simulates the results for normal vision and different types of color deficiency
• Maps the chosen colors to display on the text samples
• Easy to understand report of how the colors faired on the color deficiency simulation test

Unsafe ColorMatch

Get out of the comfort zone of web safe colors (8 bit / 256 colors) and venture out safely into the world of Truecolor (24 bits / 16.7million colors) with Unsafe ColorMatch.

Cool Features :

• Provides a simple web template for you to experiment colors on the spot.
• You can change the background color for different template columns, text colors, link colors and others.
• Unsafe Colormatch uses an algoritm supplied by Microsoft

Thanks for reading my post, I hope you have picked up some tips about colors and use them effectively on your design work. If you find this post informative, please share with other and also leave comments below :)