Other colour resources

Compiled by Paola Kathuria

This is a list of other colour articles and resources that I have found interesting or useful.

• SiteProCentral's Colour Scheme Chooser, a nice interactive JavaScript colour tool with useful options and displays.
  http://www.siteprocentral.com/html_color_code.html
• Color Tool, a drag and drop interactive colour scheme generator.
  http://color.sharewonders.com/
• Eric Meyer's Color Blender, a JavaScript colour blender distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 License.
  http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/
• Pixy's Color schemes picker is a JavaScript resource that has similar features to the Colour Selector but with the advantage of immediate feedback from direct manipulation controls.
  http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
• Cameron Adams's Technicolor experiment, a cute JavaScript direct-manipulation interface to colour elements in a representation of a web page.
  http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Technicolor/
• Hans Le Roy's ColorMatch Remix, a JavaScript slider interface to create swatches.
  http://www.hlrnet.com/colormatch/index.php
• Color Scheme Online create colour schemes interactively with options to lighten and darken schemes.
  http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
• Joe Gillespie's Web Page Design for Designers "is aimed at people who are already involved with design and typography for conventional print and want to explore the possibilities of this new electronic medium."
  http://www.wpdfd.com/
• Victor Engel's The Browser Safe Palette is the first resource I found on the browser-safe palette. I don't think it's been updated much since 1996.
  http://the-light.com/netcol.html
• Bob Stein's VisiBone makes the 216 palette available in various layouts as downloadable palettes, references cards, posters and the like. There's also an on-line resource to view colours in a test page and an editable history of viewed colours.
  http://www.visibone.com/
• Clear Ink's PaletteMan is an interactive resource that allows you to see up to five "safe" colours together. It also includes in-built combinations (e.g., tropical). The ability to apply "lighter" and "darker" transformations inspired the Colour Selector's Navigator tool.
  http://www.paletteman.com/
• BT's Safe Web Colours for colour-deficient vision, information and tools.
  http://www.btplc.com/age_disability/technology/RandD/colours/
• YoYo Design's Color Picker - you choose background and text colours and then choose which colour vision deficiency to simulate.
  http://www.yoyodesign.org/outils/ncolor/ncolor8.html.en
• Thomas G. Wolfmaier's Designing for the Color-Challenged: A Challenge, articles and a resource about colour vision deficiency.
  http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/mar99/ accessibility_color_challenged.html
• David Lehn & Hadley Stern's Death of the Websafe Color Palette? concludes there's really only 22 really web safe colours. I suggest using transparent backgrounds (their strategy 6) to get around the problem.
  http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html
• HSL and RGB conversions used by this resource.
  http://130.113.54.154/~monger/hsl-rgb.html
• efg's General Color Information is a big page of colour links.
  http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Color/
• Causes of Color - Why are things colored?, a nicely-designed online exhibit about colour.
  http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolors/