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Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design

This website is described as an "interactive color experience that explains color theory and shows how to use it in design through examples and exercises" and it is based on a book by the same name. Visitors can go through the eight sections in sequence, which is recommended, or they can scroll over the circles in the "Navigate by Section" to go directly to a topic. "The Power of Color", the...

https://www.poynter.org/archive/2002/color-contrast-dimensio...
Data Viz Color Palette Generator

A free offering that is part of a larger for-fee UI course, this palette generator is a handy online tool that quickly creates a set of colors especially designed to make any data visualization, such as pie charts, bar charts, and maps, more effective. Data Viz Palette is similar to Happy Hues (featured in the 04-17-2020 Scout Report) and other online color pickers out there in that users can...

https://www.learnui.design/tools/data-color-picker.html
Happy Hues

Happy Hues is a fun color resource perfect for website designers or any project requiring a color palette. The resource offers a curated collection with about 17 pre-selected color schemes. Visitors can explore these different schemes by clicking the "Try changing the palette!" button at the top of the site, or by selecting palettes along the left-hand side of the site (accessible by selecting...

https://www.happyhues.co/