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COLOR TIPS & ARTICLES   

  • A New Way to Learn about Colors
  • Dithering, Good, Bad and Ugly This piece discusses dithering in the context of Web graphics, and introduces the WebScrub image optimization algorithm developed by Todd Fahrner at Verso, realized as freely-downloadable Photoshop plug-ins for Mac and Windows
  • Browser Safe Color  The following (long) table is how you can determine what these 216 browser-safe colors look like
  • Color and Readability Interesting study on which colors readability is the best
  • Web Color Primer Find out what to do about the color palette problems across multiple platforms.
  • Colors - Lists and shows the possible colors on the web
  • Web Design Clinic The color series
  • Browser Safe Color Palettes The Browser Safe palette, as I so named it, is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape and Internet Explorer use within their browsers. The palettes used by these browsers are slightly different on Macs and PCs.
  • The Discriminating Color Palette Explains how to create Web graphics that look great and are dither-free on both platforms
  • Graphics and Palettes enlightenment on the mysteries of indexed palettes
  • A Color Lesson Learn how to mix colors all over again
  • No Dither Netscape Color Palette This page provides an explanation and a tool for authors to use to improve their pages
  • The World of Color Giving your page a unique appeal is as simple as selecting the right background and text colors.  But first, you need to spend some time exploring the color universe and looking for the most captivating and least hackneyed colors. 
     
    COLOR UTILITIES   
  • ColorCenter Web Color Toolbox
  • Browser Safe Color  a table to determine what the 216 browser-safe colors look like on different monitors
  • The Colorizer A java applet that helps web designers select colors for web pages
  • ColorMix Provides a quick and easy way to combine colors and reference the possibibilities and create new colors
  • Color Page Builder
  • Browser Safe Color Palettes The Browser Safe palette, as I so named it is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape and Internet Explorer use within their browsers. The palettes used by these browsers are slightly different on Macs and PCs. 
  • Color Speak an experiment to explore how we perceive and associate the colors of the so-called safe palette with words, sounds, people, emotions, and events in our own experience.
  • Online Color Picker
  • Color Manipulation Device help you choose colors for your web pages
  • Dougie's Color Checker
  • ColorSieve ColorSieve is a utility that will display the color information for any pixel on the screen
  • The Converter Coverts RGB to HEX

 

 

 


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