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colorful world

this one is dedicated to [a] the lacking yummy-lovely-linkness on this here site, [b] my growing forgetfullness, and [c] color-challenged designers ehhverywhere...

• visibone's colorlab: compare the 216 web-safe colors with each other and find out that you really shouldnt put cccc00 text on 99cc99. unless youre into that sort of thing. it displays hex codes, rgb values, cmyk values, and html names for each color.


• webwhirlers: some color theory and nifty gadgets. the color wizard takes any inputted hex value and gives the color's complimentary, tints, saturation options, and many others. there is also a color wheel that will randomly display three web-safe colors.


• colormix: a fun dithering tool.


• quickcolor: there are a few tools like this online that let you move sliders back and forth to get a nice color and four (or so) complimentary colors. but unlike others ive seen, this one lets you input rgb values for your initial color. that extra feature makes this more useful than the color pallet in photoshop.


• easyRGB: this is my current favorite and most used resource with tons of coolness. there are tools to help match rgb/hex values to pantone print colors, a tool to create color complimentaries, harmonies, and themes, as well as a few other monitor-to-print tools.