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.users.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.hookup.net/~christi/hex.htm

This is a list of hex numbers, organized by hue as laid out in Lynda Weinman’s non-dithering colors GIF. I use it to get a number quickly when I’m looking for a background or text colour. Each hex is listed in its corresponding colour. Heath Christie

 

http://www.hookup.net/~christi/hex.htm

Here are the recently published results for 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

 

 

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