Resource of the Week: Adobe's Kuler

I've used ColorBlender for a while now to help me create color palettes based on the client's corporate colors and I've even wandered over to COLOURlovers occasionally when the client has no branding standards at all and I have to start from scratch.

But my new favorite site for creating palettes is Adobe Labs' kuler. Put aside the faux-Bauhaus name and flash-based architecture – this is one cool resource. The kuler site combines the social web aspects of COLOURlovers (tagging and sharing saved palettes) and the practical features of ColorBlender (downloading my saved palettes as swatch files to plug into Photoshop and Illustrator). In addition, kuler allows me to create several different palettes from one base color (analogous, monchromatic, complementary and others) and see the results in real time.