Further Colour Reference

A selection of further readings

• General
• Choosing and Testing Colours
• Colours in HTML and CSS

General

Concepts and theories about vision and colour

Webvision

[EN] Kolb, Fernandez, Nelson

The goal of this resource is to summarize the recent advances in knowledge and understanding of the mammalian retina. We have tried to describe a conceptual theory, based on our and others’ anatomical and physiological investigations and on the actual pathways used by neurons to code visual signals in the retina. Webvision is arranged like a book with text and many illustrations.

http://webvision.med.utah.edu/KallColor.html

Farbentheorie und Farbgestaltung

[DE] Ingrid Crüger

Für diejenigen, die im Umgang mit Farben unsicher sind oder einfach mehr darüber wissen wollen, habe ich hier eine kurze Einführung in die Farbentheorie und in die Farbgestaltung zusammengestellt

http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/~crueger/farbe/

Tutorial: Farben im Webdesign

[DE] Hartmut Rudolf

In diesem Tutorial wird speziell auf die Themen Farben und richtige Farbwahl eingegangen, was interessant ist sowohl für diejenigen, die sich ihre Webseiten erstellen lassen, als auch besonders für diejenigen, die sich mit dem Thema Homepageerstellung befassen oder befassen müssen. Es wurde versucht, nur soviel Theorie wie nötig, dafür soviel Praxisbezogenheit wie möglich einzusetzen

http://www.metacolor.de/

What is Color?

[EN]

Color is the byproduct of the spectrum of light, as it is reflected or absorbed, as received by the human eye and processed by the human brain.

http://archive.devx.com/projectcool/developer/gzone/color/

Color Theory 101

[EN] Tony Celeste

Background information on how color works seems to be one of the least explored topics on the Web. Tutorials will frequently tell you to use this RGB color or that Hex color, but seldom follow through with an explanation as to why that particular color will hopefully look good where it’s being used. So, in this article, I’ll take a closer look at the fundamentals of how color works its magic.

http://www.ulead.com/learning/web5/page1.htm

Web Colors Homepage

[EN] Kerry Watson

A visual guide to choosing colors for web pages. Interactive palettes to experiment with colours

http://www.webcolors.freeserve.co.uk/

Color Matters

[EN]

The concept of color can be approached from several disciplines: physiology, psychology, philosophy, and art. This web site provides some starting points for an exploration of color

http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html

Choosing and Testing Colours

A small selection of online tools and charts

Color Schemer Online

[DE]

dieses Online-Tool stellt die zu einer gewählten Farbe harmonisierenden Farbtöne dar

http://www.webmart.de/dynasite.cfm?dsmid=42932

Visibone Color Lab

[EN/DE]

Point-and-click color scheming at its easiest

http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/

Browsers & Color Management Support

[EN] Charles Cowens

This is a site for testing client-side color management support for the displaying of images in newer browsers. I’ve included some background information and some jumps to specific tests.

http://users.rcn.com/ccowens/browser_color/test.html

Visibone — Web Palette Color Distinction Test

[EN]

Results of a survey directed by VisiBone

http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/colortest.html

Colors in Motion

[EN] Claudia Cortés

An interactive experience of Color Communication and Color Symbolism

http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com/

Colours in HTML and CSS

Specifications about Colour and the use of Colour in web authoring

CSS2 Specification — Colors and Backgrounds

[EN]

CSS properties allow authors to specify the foreground color and background of an element. Backgrounds may be colors or images. Background properties allow authors to position a background image, repeat it, and declare whether it should be fixed with respect to the viewport or scrolled along with the document.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/colors.html

CSS2 syntax and basic data types — Colors

[EN] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#color-units

CSS3 Color Module

[EN] W3C Candidate Recommendation 14 May 2003

This specification describes the properties and values that are proposed for CSS level 3. It includes and extends them from properties and values of CSS level 2

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/

ICC — International Color Consortium

[EN]

The International Color Consortium was established in 1993 by eight industry vendors for the purpose of creating, promoting and encouraging the standardization and evolution of an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management system architecture and components. The outcome of this co-operation was the development of the ICC profile specification.

http://www.color.org/

Specification ICC.1:2003-09, File Format for Color Profiles (Version 4.1.0)

[EN] [PDF]

This specification describes the International Color Consortium® profile format. The intent of this format is to provide a cross-platform device profile format. Such device profiles can be used to translate color data created on one device into another device’s native color space. The acceptance of this format by operating system vendors allows end users to transparently move profiles and images with embedded profiles between different operating systems.

http://www.color.org/ICC1-V41_ForPublicReview.pdf

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