Designing a Rainbow – Sexy Hot Colors

When it comes to mixing up a rainbow of colors for your WordPress blog or website, one of my personal favorites is Color Schemer. You can pick a color and it will show colors related and in the color theme for that color, darken or lighten it, or mix up some other features to find the color and its complimentary color companions with just a couple clicks.

Want to understand more about colors? Check out the Color Museum by Color System. It is a historical and cultural exploration through the use of color around the world. You can also go back to your childhood with Crayola. If you really want to see what the web can do, and have fun with color, check out Colors in Motion, an animated and interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism.

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Color Reference Lists

• Wikipedia – X11 Color Names, Hexadecimal and RGB
• Wikipedia – List of Colors
• Page Tutor – Expanded Color Chart – 1536 colors plus several grays
• Trollops Named Colors Panel
• W3 Schools – Color Names

Color Schemes

• Online Color Scheme Generator
• Wellstyled.com’s Color Scheme Generator 2
• Web Developers Notes – Color Combinations
• Color Match – gets six matching web colors (MSIE only)
• Infohound Color Schemer
• Color Toy
• Slayer Office – Color Palette
• 4096 Color Wheel
• Chromoweb Wheel
• Site Pro – Colour Scheme Chooser
• Interactive Learning Unit – Color Calculator
• Triple Code – Munsell – Color Themes
• Net Cocktail – Color Schemes
• Web Developers Notes – Color Combination Schemes
• Color Combinations

Color Charts

• Netcocktail – Web Safe Color sheet
• Color Charts
• Color Charts by HTML Color Codes
• Bob Stein’s Visibone Color Charts
• December’s Color Shades
• December’s Color Shades and Codes
• 100 Random Colors by Raquedan – Refresh to get 100 more random colors
• Somacon – CSS Color Chart
• Jessey – CSS colors
• Extended Color Names in CSS

Color Pickers

• Color Toy – Flash Palette Generator
• Free Application for Mac and Windows users for color picking and changing colors
• Firefox Extensions – Colorzilla
• Iconico ColorPic – Great, simple and free
• Serve.com – Color Picker and Blender
• Serve.com – Color Palette Test
• Markup NZ – Back To Font Web Color Picker
• Color Whore
• Eye Dropper Color Mixer

Color Tools

• Redalt’s Color Tools – Enter a URL and reports colors used
• Chromograf
• Color conversion (RGB/CMYK/HSV)
• Site Pro Central – HTML Color Code Generator
• Color Blender
• Manually Add Colors to Change the Layout
• Degraeve – Color Palette from Photography or Image
• JRM – Color Palette Generator from Photograph or Image
• Meyer Web – Color Blend
• Mundi Design – Web Colors
• Color Match
• Easy RGB
• Web Whirlers – Color Wizard
• CSS Colors: Take Control Using PHP
• Color Whore
• color synthAxis
• Limov – Colour Selector Tools
• Kolur – Examining Color Schemes Through Images
• Colr Org – Color Palette from Photograph or Image

Testing and Experimenting with Color and CSS

• An example of CSS Layout on a WordPress Test Site
• Test of System Colors Specified in CSS 2
• Test of Extended Color Names in CSS
• CSS Pointers Group – Color Considerations
• Rich in Style – test pages: color and backgrounds
• RichInStyle – Web-safe Colorizer – Tests Font Colors Against Background Colors
• Browser Gamma-Consistency Test
• Juicy Studio – Colour Contrast Analyser
• Web Whirlers – Spin the Color Wheel
• Unsafe Colormatch Template
• Markup NZ – Color Palettizer – Testing Font Colors Against Backgrounds
• Wannabegirl – Translucent Colored Backgrounds
• Kaliber Specials – Color Patterns
• Squid Fingers – Color Patterns
• An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design

Understanding More About Colors

• W3C CSS3 Color Module
• W3C A Standard Default Color Space for the Internet – sRGB
• Color Name Dictionaries
• Universal Color Language, Level 3 Color Names
• Echo Echo – Tutorial on CSS Colors
• RichinStyle Master Class – Color
• Wet Canvas – Color Theory and Mixing
• Worqx – Color Theory
• Color Matters
• Secrets of Web Color Revealed
• DevX – What is Color
• DexX – Using Web Color
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification
• DevX – Design With Color
• Web Whirlers – Colors on the Web
• Liquisoft – Color Theory
• Pynter Extra – Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design
• Tutorial on CSS and Color

And Even More Color References

• Texas Precancel Club – Massive Color Links and Resources
• Colour Lovers

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