Color & Web Design

Nashville Web Design Resources

Color Scheme Generator 3 -- now that I have gotten accustomed to the Color Scheme Generator 3, it is the tool I use first; excellent!

COLOURlovers -- COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends, and explore colorful articles...

Color Wizard :: key in hex & get monochromatic, analogous, complimentary/split, triadic, and varations of hue, saturation, tint; this tool has it all.

Meyerweb Color Blend -- along with Slayer, one of the best ways to obtain colors between color A and color B, which you supply; supplies ten intermediate shades

Slayer Office Color Palette -- along with Meyerweb, one of the best ways to obtain colors between color A and color B, which you supply; two sets of five allow you to find lighter and darker shades of your color(s) on the same screen

More Crayons - Color Cube :: The web-smart palette uses a 16-by-16-by-16 cube of 4,096 colors. The web-smart palette uses any combination of 00, 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99, aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, and ff, and provides a more complete gamut that should display consistently on monitors that support thousands (16-bit) and millions (24-bit) of colors. Most of the colors should dither to the nearest browser-safe color on 256-color monitors.

Genopal Demo :: Find the right color, get color schemes from pictures, re-color your graphics. Unfortunately, these are constrained demo versions only; not the best tools to use.

ColorSchemer.com
Ideo Color Visualizer :: shows all web colors with hex values together in small blocks
HTML Color Codes :: shows all web colors with hex values together in small blocks
BMK - HTML Color Codes (hexadecimal)

Share Your Color Ideas & Inspiration COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles...

Somacon - CSS Color Chart :: This page contains a neutral colors chart and a general-purpose color chart. You can use the colors in the palletes with either HTML or CSS. Click on the color code to select it, then you can copy and paste it. Click on the Toggle button to convert from Hex to RGB and back. The charts are printed in tabular fashion so you can narrow your browser window with the pallete and compare the colors to your design side-by-side.

Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color (Part One of Three, Smashing Magazine, January 2010)
Excerpt: Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to cultural background. Color theory is a science in itself. Studying how colors affect different people, either individually or as a group, is something some people build their careers on. And there’s a lot to it. Something as simple as changing the exact hue or saturation of a color can evoke a completely different feeling. Cultural differences mean that something that’s happy and uplifting in one country can be depressing in another...

Color Meanings: Symbolism of Color and Colors That Go Together
Excerpt: Colors are more than a combination of red and blue or yellow and black. They are non-verbal communication. Colors have symbolism and color meanings that go beyond ink. As you design brochures, logos, and Web sites, it is helpful to keep in mind how the eye and the mind perceive certain colors and the color meanings we associate with each color...

Color Meaning
Excerpt: Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love... Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure. It has very high visibility, which is why stop signs, stoplights, and fire equipment are usually painted red. In heraldry, red is used to indicate courage. It is a color found in many national flags...

Color - Wikipedia Entry
Excerpt: Color is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. By defining a color space, colors can be identified numerically by their coordinates...

W3 CSS3 Color Info
Excerpt: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language for describing the rendering of HTML and XML documents on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. It uses color related properties and respective values to color the text, backgrounds, borders, and other parts of elements in a document. This specification describes color values and properties for foreground color and group opacity. These include properties and values from CSS level 2 and new values...

Follow the Rainbow: 101 Color Resources for Web Designers
Excerpt: Do you freak out if someone asks you to match print colors to Web colors? Or, maybe you just can’t decide whether the orange would work better with the blue or the green. Either way, many web designers may not realize how easy it is to choose a palette for that new Web design. Additionally, many web designers might be surprised to learn that they can stay on top of color trends with a few visits to fashion design Web sites...

Website Tips: Color
Excerpt: The Color category sections include our printer-friendly free online Web-safe HTML color charts here by VisiBone's Bob Stein, by Lynda Weinman, and Daxassist, and our free online color schemer tools, too. Additionally, there are Web Site Resources to many more color charts, HTML and RGB color charts, color swatches, color palettes, helpful software and other color-related tools.

Web Design Color Resources
Excerpt: Knowing basic color theory will enhance your ability to use color successfully in WEB DESIGN. I found an excellent online resource that provides expert information not only regarding color use on the web but in a variety of commercial settings. It is the best online color theory resource I have seen to date. Also, it is written in a way that makes learning about color a joy. You must visit COLORMATTERS.COM. Not only it is a fine resource, but it also provides links to other sources of expert information on the use of color in graphics and web design...

Resources for Web Workers: Color
Excerpt: Art schools spend a lot of time teaching students about color. It's a science! The trick is to choose three or four colors that go well together and then stick with that color scheme for your entire Web site... Move away from the primary and secondary colors (please!) to put together a more sophisticated scheme that will make your pages look appealing...