Color Scheme Designer 3. Kuler. Color for Coders - Color and Design for the Non-Designer. If you’re one of the people who spend most of their reading time skimming through Client and Server Side Coding articles, then you probably should read this article. Yes, you: the one with your code open full-screen in the other monitor. I’m a designer and I work at a hosting/ISP company in a room with four very talented Web programmers. Together, they can develop just about any kind of application, but not one of them could develop a harmonious color scheme if his life depended on it. Color selection for Website design is a topic that’s been approached from many different angles. Have you ever wondered where designers get that mystical ability to say whether a color is or is not "working"? The Painter’s Best Friend To begin to understand color, you’ll have to think like a painter.
Being a master painter, your most critical tool for mixing colors is your understanding of the simple color wheel shown here. Color Schemes Analogous Complementary Monochromatic. Working Space Comparison: sRGB vs. Adobe RGB 1998. Adobe RGB 1998 and sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (sRGB) are two of the most common working spaces used in digital photography. This section aims to clear up some of the confusion associated with sRGB and Adobe RGB 1998, and to provide guidance on when to use each working space. sRGB is a RGB color space proposed by HP and Microsoft because it approximates the color gamut of the most common computer display devices. Since sRGB serves as a "best guess" for how another person's monitor produces color, it has become the standard color space for displaying images on the internet. sRGB's color gamut encompasses just 35% of the visible colors specified by CIE (see section on color spaces).
Although sRGB results in one of the narrowest gamuts of any working space, sRGB's gamut is still considered broad enough for most color applications. Comparison uses CIE L*a*b* reference space; colors are only qualitative to aid in visualization. Adobe RGB 1998 clearly has a larger gamut than sRGB, but by how much?