Colour Links
Numerous colour resources can be found on the web.
The following is a
selection of key resources you may find interesting.
Web-safe colours
| Visibone |
Visibone provides an interesting, interactive way to select
web-safe colour combinations. (HTML and CSS resources are also
available). |
| Colormix |
By dithering 2 or 3 web-safe colours it is possible to
make over 10 million different colour combinations. Colormix
provides a quick and easy way to combine these 216 hex values.
Once you have created a colour, you can download swatches to use as
backgrounds and fill colours. |
|
Death of the Websafe Color Palette? (Webmonkey) |
Definitely worth reading. A Webmonkey article that
will answer these burning questions:
- Given all the new versions of browsers and operating systems that
have emerged since the original websafe palette was created, is the
websafe palette still Web-safe?
- With the dominant number of users now running High Colour and True
Colour displays -- as opposed to the 256 colour displays of three or
four years ago -- can we use whatever colours we want?
- And if it turns out that our choice of colours is still limited, is
there a new websafe palette for High and True Colour machines?
|
|
Colour technology
| Pantone |
Pantone has developed over 1000 internet colours, each
with a unique Pantone number that can be used to communicate with
printers. 147 of these colours can be accessed free on the Pantone
web site. |
| The International Color
Consortium (ICC) |
The International Color
Consortium was established in 1993 by eight industry vendors for the
purpose of creating, promoting and encouraging the standardization and
evolution of an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform colour management
system architecture and components. |
|
|
