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Index of Color Contrast Samples. Color Scheme Designer 3. ColorToy 2.0 - The Flash Color Scheme Generator. Color Blender. Color Schemes, Color Palettes, Color Theory. Color in Motion Available in English and Spanish, this flash presentation presents an animated, interactive demonstration of the symbolism and emotions associated with various colors, including the best uses of these colors.

Color Schemes, Color Palettes, Color Theory

Colors on the Web Color theory, color combinations, color physics, and the use of colors on web pages are discussed, and a color wheel allows users to test out what they have learned. Other tools include color names, a color wizard, and a color scheme tool. ColorExplorer This online toolbox permits users to work with palettes in a variety of ways, creating, managing and evaluating color palettes for use in graphic or web designs.

Adobe Kuler Color Scheme The Kuler color wheel allows users to experiment with various color combinations. Color Scheme Designer This web page design tool can be used to create color combinations and to visualize them, in order to determine which work well together. ColorRotate Color Palette Peter Piper’s Palette Picker Mudcube Pictaculous Photocopa. Colormatch Remix Color Scheme, Colour Scheme Chooser - Monochromatic, Analogic, Complimentary, Split Complementary, Triadic, Double Contrast. Html Color Codes, Web Colors - HTML Color Codes, Website Tips, WebsiteTips.com. This is the link color.

Colormatch Remix Color Scheme, Colour Scheme Chooser - Monochromatic, Analogic, Complimentary, Split Complementary, Triadic, Double Contrast. Html Color Codes, Web Colors - HTML Color Codes, Website Tips, WebsiteTips.com

This is the hover color. Color schemes are logical combinations of colors on the color wheel. A monochromatic color scheme consists of different values of one color. Also called harmonious colors, analagous color schemes are colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Some examples are green, light green, and yellow or red, orange and yellow. Complementary colors are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel, such as blue and orange, red and green, purple and yellow. A split-complementary color scheme is a color scheme that includes a main color and the two colors on each side of its complementary (opposite) color on the color wheel. A triadic color scheme consists of three colors, such as the basic triad of red, yellow and blue primaries. Tetradic color scheme: Tetrads are any four colors with a logical relationship on the color wheel, such as double complements.1.

Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension. Summary Determining the colour contrast between foreground and background colours is a time consuming task, but is greatly aided by colour contrast analysers.

Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension

The problem with colour contrast analysers is that they don't automatically go through all of the possible colour combinations in a document; instead, it requires a judgement call by the person evaluating the page to decide whether colour combinations look like they may be problematic, and then to enter those colours into a colour contrast analyser. I've written a Firefox extension that reveals the colour contrast of all elements in the DOM. If you evaluate websites for colour contrast, this extension will be useful for saving you time, and also take out the guesswork required to determine which colours to test.

Author: Gez Lemon Contents Colour Contrast Analyser Only elements that contain text are listed. [Back to the contents] Limitations I've tested the extension on a few websites, and it seems to be working reliably. Updates. Color Palette Generator.