Color

Draft

So far this entry, just includes some interesting links to color, in particular with respect to computer graphics. Most links point to Wikipedia

See also:

• Computer colors tutorial (a tutorial that mostly address web designers)
• Flash colors tutorial
• CSS color and background tutorial

Links

Indexes

• Index of color related articles (at Wikipedia)

General Theory

• Color theory (Wikipedia).
• Color model (Wikipedia).
• Primary color Primary colors are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range (gamut) of colors.
• color museummodels, history, aesthetics

Models and color components

• List of color spaces and their uses (Short listing of various models)
• RGB color model (Wikipedia).
• HSL and HSV (Wikipedia).
• Hue (Wikipedia).
• Complementary color (Wikipedia).
• Colorfulness (Wikipedia).
• color wheel (Wikipedia).
• Color space (Wikipedia).

Use of colors on computers

• Palette (computing) (Wikipedia)
• List of palettes (Wikipedia)
• Color depth (Wikipedia). Color depth is a computer graphics term describing the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image. Also know as bits per pixel (bpp).
• Gamma correction

Color Lists

• List of colors (Wikipedia). Including hex triplet, rgb and HSV values
• Web colors (Wikipedia).
• color management (Wikipedia).

Color Schemes and Color codes

• graphical color chart with interactive color picker
• Codes categorized by hue
• Codes categorized by shade (brightness)
• Hues at 30° separation
• Hues at 10° separation

Online color palette generators

Tools to help you generate color palettes for web and print

• 25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme
• 25 Popular Color Scheme and Palette Generators
• colorschemedesigner.com
• Colors on the web Color Wizard
• kuler