Online tools for creating color schemes

By now it's pretty clear the importance color can play in design. As developers, syntax coloring has also become a mainstay of IDEs and mildly powerful text editors. The following resources may prove useful in identifying color themes both for designing applications as well as establishing pleasing syntax color schemes.

Color Scheme Designer
http://www.colorschemedesigner.com/
This one provides a great tool for choosing a scheme based on some of the common scheme classifications. It also provides a preview of what the scheme will look like on both a light and dark version of a web page.

ColorCombos
http://www.colorcombos.com/
This site has a collection of swatches for choosing a color combination, but it also has a tool that will yank the colors out of any web page.

Colorspire
http://www.colorspire.com/
Besides the familiar Photoshop-style color picker and the pool of 5 color chips to build the scheme from, the real nifty feature of this tool is its collection of brightness and saturation controls that easily let the user bump those aspects of a color up or down.

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