This page contains references to color information on the Web...

• George Hernandez Color: several pages explaining different aspects of color on computers. http://www.georgehernandez.com/XComputers/Color/
  • Combinations
  • Depth
  • Hue
  • Saturation
  • Systems
  • Value
  • VGA
  • Web Safe
• Color Matters: another excellent resource, including introductory material and a wide variety of topics from scientific through trendy. http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
• Color Principles - Hue, Saturation, and Value: aimed at people using color for scientific visualization purposes, this presents an in-depth technical look at color, and has some good illustrative diagrams. http://www2.ncsu.edu/scivis/lessons/colormodels/color_models2.html
• RGB to Color Name Mapping (Triplet and Hex): One of the most comprehensive lists of colors with samples, names, and numbers. http://eies.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html
• Dougie's Color Picker: Lets you type in hex numbers or select them from a chart, and combine them on a Web page.http://www.hypersolutions.org/pages/colorSel.html
• Rich Franzen's Wheel of Saturation, Intensity, and Hue: Interactive page (Java applet) that lets you get in-depth numeric information about any given color's hue, intensity (perceived and actual brightness) and saturation. Hexadecimal equivalents also shown. http://r0k.us/graphics/SIHwheel.html
• Brian Hall's ColorServe: Interactive page (Java applet) to let you choose colors from a color wheel for page background, text, and links, showing hexadecimal equivalents. http://sleepyoaks.com/HTML/hex_decimal_color_picker.htm (Several instances of this applet are available at other Web sites.)
• Thinking Hexadecimally: A tutorial to help you understand hexadecimal numbers. http://www.hypersolutions.org/pages/hex.html
• ColorMixers: This sophisticated system lets you choose a base color using either a hex number or three sliders. It shows a set of up to nine matching colors; while these appear harmonious, the theoretical basis for selecting matching colors is not discussed here. However, it has the very practical ability to output the color codes in hex RGB, decimal RGB, CMYK, Photoshop .ACT, and Illustrator .AI formats. http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/index.php
• Web-Safe Color Visualizations: A number of pages present diagrams of the 216 Web-safe colors in various formats.
  • Visibone Color Lab lets you click on a color and learn more about it: http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/
  • Visibone Web-Safe Colors with Hexadecimal codes for use in HTML: http://www.visibone.com/color/chart/
  • RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart is relatively simple: http://www.hypersolutions.org/images/rgbhex.gif

Audience: This is for people who want to refer to information about color on the Web.

About this document...
Module D02r: This document is part of a modular instruction series in computer technology. For more information, see the overview or the list of modules in this series, D: Desktop Publishing and Computer Graphics. This document has been used in the following classes:INP 152.

Author: Laurence J. Krieg
Institution: Internet Professional Department, Washtenaw Community College
History: Original: February 2002 as D21r; Revised as D02r May 2002; This revision posted  Monday, 31-Aug-2009 11:47:55 EDT
Copyright © 2002, Laurence J. Krieg, Washtenaw Community College

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