Often, the importance of a good color scheme is overlooked in Web development. In the few minutes (or even seconds) a visitor spends on evaluating a Web site, the color usage can make or break the deal.
WebReference Articles
- Communicate with Color
- Color is one of the most primal and immediate ways of communicating your message. Learn how with this article from Marua "Chip" Yost. From the Webreference Update.
- E-Book Review: Color Voodoo
- Using color effectively doesn't have to be a black art. Learn how in this series of e-books, reviewed by Maura "Chip" Yost.
- Optimizing Web Graphics - Which Color Palette?
- Clears up the mysteries surrounding non-dithering Web-friendly palattes that will work across browsers and platforms. Includes the non-dithering palette, CLUT, and swatch for easy download. Part of Optimizing Web Graphics, an article on how to create graphics
for the Web that load fast, look great and don't dither.
- Production Graphics
- Our own graphics great, Wendy Peck, covers color, graphic design and a host of other topics sure to help anyone work with Web graphics.
- Ten Photoshop Color Tools
- Dan Giordan walks you through the color tools of Photoshop. Learn which does what, and how to use them to your maximum benefit.
- Web Graphics for Non-Designers
- You needn't be a Picasso or Rembrandt to design effective Web pages; but you do need
a solid understanding of how colors work together on your site. Using color is the
topic of our next series of book excerpts; beginning with basic theory and
color schemes. From glasshaus.
Other Tutorials & Resources
- Background and
Colour Notes
- From the International Federation of Library Associations, tips and resources on HTML colors, tags, background graphics, and more, including a large hex color chart. By Terry Kuny.
- The Browser Safe Color Palette
- Web safe color pages by Lynda Weinman, organized by hue and value.
- Poynton's
Color Technology Page
- Gamma and color FAQs. "Explains gamma and clarifies aspects of
nonlinear image coding in computer graphics, image processing, video, and the
transfer of digital images to print." Not frequently updated, but filled with useful information.
- RGB Color
Charts and tools
- Color charts a plenty from Doug Jacobson, guides to dealing with hex conversions, color pickers and more.
Tools
- Colorizer (*)
- Our own cool, interactive colorizer Web app - just click on the provided palatte, and get the hex, decimal, percentage values and html code for the colors you want.
- Lonster's RGB to HEX
translator
- Interactively create the hex codes needed for web page backgrounds and text
elements. Simply click on the color you want and the RGB hex value is
displayed.
- Visibone: Web Designer's Color Reference
- Free online interactive color pickers and off-line (but very handy) HTML color reference posters, mousepads, etc.
Comments are welcome
Revised: December 2, 2002
URL: http://webreference.com/authoring/graphics/color/
