“Pick a color value format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick the number of midpoints you’d like to see. The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.”

“Ever found yourself in need of a quick color scheme ? But no inspiration at all… When that happens, i quickly launch my favorite www.colormatch.dk! And this is the Flashlet version of it. The original being written in JS, it wasn’t really portable ( ie not working in NS or OPERA ). So I thought this version might be handy… You’ll notice that it is strictly inspired by colormatch, in that it only find analogous colors. It was also a nice introduction to the color object in MX, for me.”

“Hover over the wheel to view colors. Click to choose a web-smart color. Reload to clear… Once, long ago, monitors could display only a restricted number of colors without dithering or other color discrepancies. The traditional solution to this problem was to use a restricted color palette known as the Netscape 216 colors, browser-safe colors or the web-safe colors. In hexadecimal form, the web-safe colors are composed of three pairs of identical hexadecimal digits selected from 00, 33, 66, 99, cc, and ff; for example, #000000 is black, and#ffffff is white. Time passed, as it so frequently does, and new hardware supported thousands or millions of colors. People grew tired of the old 216 colors. They wanted more earth tones, more variety. The web-smart colors are those 4096 colors composed of any three pairs of identical hexadeximal digits (0-9 and a-f), such as #dd1188.”

“One of the most difficult tasks for visual communicators is being able to select harmoniously matching color combinations. Though we all feel that we have an innate capability to select colors appropriately, we have sadly realized how untrue this is in reality and how incredibly difficult it is to make good color matches without having any design background or preparation.”

“Search for colors complements to your RGB values. Create color harmonies, combinations and themes. From your main (or background) color select trim and accents tones.”

“Color communicates and it sells everything from products and services to ideas and environments. This helps explain why color forecasting has become such a vital process for so many organizations and industries. In normal times, color trends are evolutionary, changing gradually and subtly in step with cultural, social, economic and technological developments. But these are not normal times and, according to the color experts, the stresses that beset our society are having a rather direct influence on the direction of the color palette.”

Yet another slick color picker.

“I discovered a way of colouring the natural numbers that I have found very fascinating. I use following eight colours: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white. It started years ago when I realised that those numbers that can be expressed as the sum of just two squares (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13 etc.) contain all their multiplication products (e.g., 2×5=10)…”

“We think of colour as an objective thing: Red is red and can’t be seen in any other way. But this is not so. The colour we perceive depends on things like the words we have in our language (our culture) to describe it, the other colours surrounding it and what the brain is expecting to see.”

“Colour is increasingly used these days to help convey information. When one in twelve men have some measurable degree of colour vision deficiency, the use of certain colours in certain ways can cause difficulty when navigating web pages or software, and even total illegibility in some cases… This site contains information and design tools. They may not show you exactly what dichromats see, but will help you to understand which colours are easily confused.”

“Color is important — for those of us in ebusiness, it’s an integral part of the way we “speak” to our visitors. And people respond, even at a physiologic level, to colors. We’ve talked a little about the role of color when it comes to the design of your Web site and about a cool way to select a harmonious color palette. But we haven’t really delved into the associations between color and personality. Until today.”

“The message for fashionistas for 2003 is clear: keep it clean, keep it refreshed and keep it simple. At Premier Vision, there was newness if all classifications of fabrics that were retrospective of past trends, but the approach was neat and novel. Even the decorative classifications were decidedly uncontrived. The market is now appealing to the consumers’ desire for sensible uncomplicated things.”

“For years, artists have been using the color wheel to choose colors that go well together. The color wheel is a visual representation of color theory: with a simple color wheel printed on cardstock or plastic, you can quickly create a good color scheme. However, a printed color wheel has one big disadvantage: it cannot SHOW you how your color scheme will look on real artwork — that is, on a logo, website, or banner you’re working on. Color Wheel Pro allows you to preview color schemes on real-world examples. This is the key difference between Color Wheel Pro and other similar tools. The preview is real-time: when adjusting the color scheme, you see the changes immediately.”

“A large amount of data is produced as a result of high performance scientific computing. The term, visualization for scientific computing, shortened to scientific visualization, was coined in 1986 and refers to the science or methodology of quickly and effectively displaying scientific data. The goal of scientific visualization is to enhance scientific productivity by utilizing human visual perception and computer graphics techniques… In order to use these graphics effectively, some understanding of visual perception is needed.”

“This utility will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your website. Define a single color that you like. Matching colors will be calculated. Click a color in the palette to promote it to the primary color.”