Jeff, absolutely right there is a lot I can do to enhance the tool. I’d like to add import and export of palettes too. I wonder if there’s a color picker I can just plug in.

I use Tinter-Shader along with two other favorite tools, http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/ and http://colorschemedesigner.com/. These 3 tools together make up an important part of my work flow. I talk about that in my About link :)

* Somewhere on the page, tell the user what a shade is vs. a tint. Maybe that’s simply by placing a header above each color row. (“Shades: FFFFFF + Black”)

* Adding a color picker on the page would be really useful. As is, it assumes I already have a HEX # to start with.

* This may sound counter-intuitive, but perhaps a box or separate page with links to other useful color tools. Kuler, for example (http://kuler.adobe.com/). The idea being your tool complements other tools. OR, maybe other handy web dev tool websites.

* Brand it with humor. Make the page/tool more interesting with tongue-in-cheek “color” commentary or fictional quotes from famous people.

Lot’s of potential!

Another handy color-picker I love is Hex Color Picker http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/ (for Macintosh only). It adds hex input/output to the standard Mac system color picker.