COLORS

http://www.lynda.com/hex.html

A must see page: Lynda Weinman’s “Browser Safe Color Palette” page. This is the page that first got me all in a dither about using colors on the Web. Be sure to download her browser safe color swatches. Suzanne Stephens

 

http://www.lynda.com/bookstore/

How to order Lynda Weinman’s books, in which you’ll read lots more about taming the browser safe color problem. Suzanne Stephens

 

http://www.onr.com/user/lights/

Victor Engel’s explaination of Web color palettes. Walter Arnold

 

http://www2.clearink.com/lab/color

I put together a 216-color background picker page as a JavaScript learning experiment, but I find myself using it all the time so I thought I’d share it with the you. It works with NetScape 3.0 & MSIE 3.0. Steve Nelson

 

http://www.us ers.interport.net/~giant/COLOR/hype_color.html

“The Color Specifier for Netscape.” If you don’t have all the codes handy, here’s a good site. Michael P. McCurdy

 

http://www.hidaho.com/c3/

I really like the setup of this site for comparing/contrasting colors. It lets you play with text over background, specify link/alink/ and vlink, has hex and dec equivalents, textures, balloons for the kiddies and coffee for Mom and Dad... Michael P. McCurdy

 

http://www.thecube.com/color

This is a research project judging the readability of text color on backgrounds. The color combo rated best for readability was black text on white background. Betsy Dunphy

 

http://www.biola.edu/ cgi-bin/colorpro/colorpro.html

This cgi allows people to easily pick colors off of the “color-wheel” as they are used to in any graphical applications. The server it runs on isn’t the fastest, but the CGI is awesome. Steve Coffman

 

http://www.AkamaiDesign.com /tests/colors.html

After months of hassling with the task of trying to find the right color combos for sites I finally took the time to write a handy little javascript that has text samples on it of all 216 colors in the web browser palette. The javascript allows us to switch to any background color and see how the text samples look on it. It sure saves us a lot of time and has opened our eyes to new color combos that we hadn’t considered before. Ryan Lee

 

http://www.stone.com/java/cc/

Andy Stone’s ColorCoordinator lets the Web page designer instantly select and preview colors for the background, text, links, active link and visited links on an HTML page. ColorCoordinator then provides the HTML code required to use these selected colors. You can choose colors from either the browser-safe 216 color palette or from a color picker wheel. Andrew Stone

 

Suzanne Stephens SStephens@opendoor.com

 

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