Colors on the Web is a new site for web colors that includes a nifty color wheel that picks three random colors.
Posted 10:44 AM
Color Tool is a cool DHTML color picker that lets you instantly change the colors of page elements with drag-and-drop.
Posted 10:11 AM
“GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceived contrast.”
Posted 11:57 AM
Fashion in Colors "explores color as a design element through 300 years of western fashion."
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Firewheel Design's ColorBurn is a cool OS X Dashboard widget that features a new color palette every day.
Posted 09:12 AM
Colr Pickr is a nifty color picker that uses color wheel to pick Flickr photos that have the colors you pick. Scroll down for a bunch of different sets of images, like textures and graffiti.
Posted 12:54 PM
colr.org is a cool "site for playing with colors... It's pretty much del.icio.us for colors and color schemes."
Posted 08:45 AM
Recolored is a software application that colorizes black and white photos if you specify some borders and colors. [via]
Posted 11:36 AM
Window Research 4: Color Guidelines & Applications has some guidelines for using color in user interfaces.
Posted 01:33 PM
Etsy has a cool Flash interface that lets you shop for items by color. [Via What Do I Know.]
Posted 12:07 PM
Richard Rutter's personal experience with using the web as a colorblind person.
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Digital Web has a nice article on Color Theory for the Color-Blind
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COLOURlovers is "a place to view, rate and review some lovely colours & palettes. the idea is to create a place of color inspiration where a designer of any sort can see new and lovely colours."
Posted 11:06 AM
Color Code is "a full-color portrait of the English language." There's an interactive Java map of more than 33,000 words, each "assigned a color based on the average color of images found by a search engine."
Posted 09:22 AM
Pantone looks back at trends in fashion and design from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. There's a palette of popuar colors from each decade.
Posted 11:47 AM
hickdesign has a simple, elegant visual example of colorblindness, and a commenter links to the Ishihara Test for Color Blindness.
Posted 11:43 AM
Detailed guidelines on "How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to color blind people."
Posted 11:25 AM
The Return of Design has color schemes taken from a variety of sources.
Posted 09:04 AM
Colours on the web is a nice site on color theory and color matching, with a cool Colour Wizard that "will automatically return the complementary colour, split complementary colours, analogous colours, chromatic variations, shade and tint variantion and saturation variation" for hexadecimal colors. Or you can spin the Colour Wheel to get a palette of three colors.
[via Digital Web]
Posted 04:18 PM
Eric Meyer's Color Blender is a cool tool that gives you a blended range of up to 10 colors between two colors you specify.
[via Scriptygoddess]
Posted 05:38 PM
SitePoint's Essential Colour Checklists For Web Design is a nice article on color basics.
Posted 11:16 AM
Defence Mechanism's Color Toy is a nifty Flash-based color picker.
Posted 11:46 AM
I fixed the DHTML trouble with the color cube so toggling the layers works in Mozilla and Netscape. Thanks to Craig Saila for pointing this out.
Posted 11:25 AM
The W3C released the final working draft of the CSS3 color module on Valentine's Day. There's some interesting stuff: specs for opacity and transparency, and the ability to specify HSL values, which are more intuitive than RGB.
Posted 06:37 AM
The good news: moreCrayons got a nice mention on Craig Saila's excellent Living Can Kill You weblog.
The bad news: there are some DHTML problems with the color cube in Mozilla I didn't know about. I'll have to fix them.
If you have any bugs to report or suggestions for improvements, please use the contact form to let me know.
Update: This is fixed now.
Posted 10:49 AM
Usability News takes A Look at Color and Balance.
Posted 09:38 AM
Color Consultant Pro is a cool software application for Mac OS 9 and OS X that features artistic and scientific color wheels and provides RGB, HSB, LAB, CMYK and hex color values.
[via What Do I Know]
Posted 12:12 PM
Brainstorms and Raves has links to some very interesting color links, including a Herman Miller white paper on the Experience of Color, and how to pick the right colors for your office and your home.
Posted 05:59 AM
The Colorblind Web Page Filter lets you simulate how your site looks to people who are colorblind. [via DigitalWeb]
Posted 06:39 AM
Milo's !usedcolors is a cool bookmarklet that generates a popup window with all of the colors specified in the HTML code and stylesheets. There are some bugs, but it's got a lot of potential. [via web-graphics]
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Communication Arts' Laurie Rosenwald reviews Mutant Bastard Yucky Colors of the Apocalypse
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moreCrayons is one of HOW magazine's Top Links this month. Woo hoo!
Posted 06:32 PM
Triplecode's Munsell Palette is a very cool Flash-based color picker based on the Munsell Color System. [via webgraphics]
Posted 04:42 PM
Markup for Hand Coders has two interesting color selection tools: Palettizer is a "css color contrast picker" and Back to Front Web Color Picker generates CSS code for different tags.
Posted 11:04 AM
Web Page Design for Designers has a nice tutorial on creating a palette from colors in photographs. [via xBlog]
Posted 12:08 PM
ColorMatch 5K is a cool online tool. Pick a color you like, and the tool automatically selects six colors that go with it. [via xBlog]
Posted 10:04 AM
This checker shadow illustration is an amazing demonstration of the influence of contrast on color perception. These cool Flash animations are tricky, too. [via MetaFilter],
Posted 10:51 AM
Smile Software’s HTMLColorPickerX is a nice HTML color picker for OS X. [via MacNN]
Posted 06:52 AM
FactMonster has a timeline of Crayola Crayons. I'm from the 64-colors box generation. I seem to remember being excited when I got the big box with the sharpener, but according to the timeline it was released several years before I was born. [via jerry kindall]
Posted 12:44 AM
Refac's in color is a cool Flash application that describes color theory with informative graphics and interactive games. [via DesignInteract]
Posted 12:35 AM
moreCrayons was one of the winners in Communication Arts' Interactive Annual 8. I was surprised and delighted to be one of the winners, and I couldn't have done it without lots of help.
Posted 11:37 AM
Visibone has a cool Web Color KiloChart with interesting arrangements of 1,068 colors for the web. It features "hundreds of...girly pastels and manly earth tones." [via harrumph!]
Posted 08:35 AM
Colorfield Digital Media’s Xproof is a promising application for OS 9 and OS X that lets you simulate how colors will look in different environments. It also lets you simulate colorblindness. [via What Do I Know]
Posted 09:51 PM
New downloadable Photoshop swatch of the grayscale palette.
Posted 12:51 PM
I added a feedback form on the Contact page.
Posted 12:11 PM
I made some changes to the style sheets and PHP templates to fix the display of the top navigation in Internet Explorer 5 on Windows 98. The fixes look OK in Internet Explorer 6 (Windows 98) and Internet Explorer 5.1 (OS X).
Posted 12:44 PM
It's been an exciting and hectic week at moreCrayons. Jeffrey Zeldman mentioned the site on Tuesday, followed quickly by glish.com. Then there was a discussion at MetaFilter.
All this was a wee bit premature, since I'm still fixing things up from the redesign. I just finished installing and configuring Moveable Type version 2.0, which was just released yesterday. It's excellent software for managing weblogs.
Posted 10:14 AM