COLOR
SITES
Color My World 
Color theory basics from Gif Girl, Tripod's intrepid design columnist.
Color on the Web
An exploration of the use of color on web pages. Includes what to do, what not to do, discusses cultural contexts, and provides a number of links.
Color References
Links to tutorials, theory, comprehensive sites, and articles about color.
color.matters
An exploration of color, both in design and in the world around us. Looks at color from physiological, psychological, philosophical, and artistic points of view.
efg's Color Page
An exhaustive list of links color references; color charts, color conversion, gamma correction, etc. Most of the links don't deal specifically with color as it applies to web design.
Heads Up
Marsha Plat of vivid studios has organized the web safe colors by hue, saturation, and brightness. Download her image files and open them in Photoshop for easy access to color families.
The Joy of Hex
A free tool that will convert from RGB to hexadecimal color values.
Limit Yourself: Small and Safe Color Palettes
Gif Girl, Tripod's design columnist, tackles optimizing images by reducing color palettes. Includes how to load the browser safe palette.
lynda.com homegurrrl page
Lynda Weinman's site offers web safe color palettes, color tips, and news about her books.
The Official 216 Cross-Platform Browser-Safe Colors
View the web safe colors with their corresponding RGB and CMYK values.
Scharff Research
Research interests of Lauren Scharff, in the fields of visual perception and physiology; focusing on factors that affect readability and visual search of information.
VisiBone
Tools for selecting, and implementing, the right colors for your web pages and images. Includes a Color Lab, for selecting and comparing color choices online; and Wheel Swatches - downloadable color tables for a variety of graphics programs.
yaro's Colori
A javascript-based tool that lets you preview colors and generate color hexcodes for use in HTML pages by sliding controls on a menu.
ARTICLES
Colorblindness and Usability
A colorblind web professional advises site developers to help serve the 10% of the male population that is colorblind. (2/10/2001 at WebWord.com)
Death of the Websafe Color Palette?
A reexamination of the 216-color websafe palette shows that only 22 colors are really safe across a wide range of browsers and color depths; includes advice on coping with the problem. (9/6/2000 at WebMonkey)
Web Graphics for Non-Designers
Excerpts from a book showing non-designers how to deal with design issues on websites. (12/2/2002 at WebReference.com)
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