Color Links
USING COLOR IN YOUR WEBPAGES

"Color Combination" tool


"Color Combination" theory

Color Meaning (and Effect on Mood & Perception)

Dithering Other Colors From the 216 Safe Colors Set

Computer monitors and television screens use only three "colors" (red, green, and blue--called RGB for short) to make up each point of color that you see on a TV/display screen. But ... there are also six "shades" of the color red (0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and full intensity) plus six shades of green plus six shades of blue. If you take each of the shades of red and view them with a different shade of green and a different shade of blue, you'll come up with 216 colors. And those 216 colors are the only colors some of the older computer monitors will display.

However, as the software which controls computer display screens became more sophisticated, graphics designers realized that they could simulate "millions of colors" by setting adjacent points of color on the screen to a mixture of the 216 colors--that's what we call color "dithering".

Background & Text Color Selection Tools (216 Safe Colors)

Background & Text Color Selection Tools (Full Color Range)


Color Blindness Considerations

216 Color Palette, Rendered for Common Color Blindness Conditions

Testing Background & Text Colors for Common Color Blindness Conditions

Testing Web Pages, HTML, & Images for Common Color Blindness Conditions