Information Technology Systems & Services
Color
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Tutorials
- A Quick Color Explanation - Joe Burns
- Choosing a Color Scheme - Adrian Roselli et al.
- Choosing a Color Scheme (continued) - Adrian Roselli et al.
- Good Color Practice - Adrian Roselli et al.
- Quick Color Class - Adrian Roselli
- Type and Colour - Joe Clark
- Understanding Color by Anne Coneen
Theory & Models
- Color: An Investigation - Joshua David McClurg Genevese
- Color Overview - worqx.com
- Color Theory and Color Models - Brown University
- Color Theory for Digital Displays: A Quick Reference: Part I - Pabini Gabriel-Petit
- Color Theory for Digital Displays: A Quick Reference: Part II - Pabini Gabriel-Petit
- Color Theory for the Color Blind - Mario Parise
- Colour Theory - Linda Goin
- The Red Queen Color Theory - Bob Stein
Comprehensive Sites
- ColorCombos.com
- Color Glossary
- Color Marketing Group
- Color Matters - J. L. Morton
- Color Vision - Cal Henderson
- International Color Consortium
- PANTONE
- The Lighthouse
- VisiBone
- Virtual Colour Museum
- Web Color Reference - WebReference
- Web Developer's Virtual Library Color Resources
Color Contrast
- Accessibility Tools for Quality Assurance: Color Contrast - Martin Kliehm
- Checkpoint 2.2 - Ensure that foreground and background color combinations provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen. - W3C
- Colour and Contrast Accessibility Issues: for the design of e-learning materials - E.A. Draffan and Peter Rainger
- Color Contrast and Partial Sight
- Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design
- Colour Bland: Contrast - Dave Shea
- Colour and Contrast - Peter Rainger
- Colour with Contrast - Ann McMeekin
- Does W3C Get It's Contrasts Wrong? - Mel Pedley
- Effective Color Contrast Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies - Aries Arditi.
- Effective Colour Contrast - S.R. Emerson
- Has Your Web Designer Ever Heard of Contrast? - Aycan Gulez
- JavaScript Contrast Class - Gez Lemon
- Light Text On a Dark Background vs. Readbility - Roger Johansson
- Luminosity Contrast Ratio Algorithm - Gez Lemon
- Tip: Understanding colour contrast and accessibility - Jim Byrne
- The Effect of Color and Typeface on the Readability of On-Line Text - Marelys L. Garcia and Cesar I. Caldera
- WCAG 2.0: Do You Have Enough Color Contrast on Your Web Site? - Justin Thorp
Color Vision Deficiencies.
- A New Web-Based Colour Vision Test - City University London.
- Accommodating Color Blindness - Paul Hoffman
- An Explanation of Colorblindness - Jon Hicks
- Colorblind HomePage - Terrace L. Waggoner
- Color Blindness - Wikipedia
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Colorblindness - A Usability Guide for Commercial Applications, Part 1 -
Anthony Mitchell
- Colorblindness - A Usability Guide for Commercial Applications, Part 2 - Anthony Mitchell
- Colour Blindness on the Web - Richard Rutter
- Color Theory for the Color Blind - Mario Parise
- Color Vision Confusion - Burcu Karagol-Ayan
- Colour-Vision Deficiency - Joe Clark
- ColorVision Test - Mike Bennet
- Color Vision Testing Made Easy - Terrace L. Waggoner
- Considering the Color Blind - Chuck Newman
- Ensuring Accessibility for People With Color-Deficient Vision - Pabini Gabriel-Petit
- Don't Rely on Colour Alone to Provide Important Information - Jim Byrne
- How the Color Deficient Person Sees the World - Color vision testing
- More Adaptations for Color Blindness - Joe Clark
- Shades of Accessibility - Etre
- What do colour-blind people see?
- What is colourblindness? - Joe Clark
Color Tools.
Articles/Related Links
- Accessible Colors - Menghini Calderon Fabrizio Antonio
- Automatic Color Harmony Tools - Andrew B. King
- Avoid Colour Problems, General Advice - Skills for Access
- Causes of Colors
- Change the Color of Visited Links - Jakob Nielsen
- Cheating Color - Jason Santa Maria
- Choosing the Right Color Palette - grokdotcom.com
- Choosing the Right Color Pallete in PhotoShop - Gary W. Priester
- CMYK (for Those Who Do RGB ) - Dave Shea
- Colors and Accessibility Issues - Stanford University
- Color and Usability - grokdotcom
- Color And Usability Matters - Jill Morton
- Colour Bland: Value
- Color Books
- Color Chart Pickers - Marie
- Color For Coders - Color and Design For the Non-Designer - Jason Beaird
- Color Commitment - Natalie Jost
- Color Harmonies - Easy RGB
- Color is Context
- Color is Information
- Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting - COLOURlovers
- Color Management Made Stupid - Bruce Fraser
- Color on the Web - Daniel Will-Harris
- Color On The Web - Ellen Marie Murphy
- Color Shades - Christopher Schmitt
- Color Scheme Methods - Dave Shea
- Color Schemes - allmyfaqs.com
- Colour Schemes and Design Mockups - Linda Goin
- Coloring Your World - Part 1: Color Basics - Derrick Ypenburg
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CSS Color
- A (CSS) Horse of a Different Color - Part 1 - Keith Schengili-Roberts
- Always Specify A Background Colour - Christopher Hester
- CSS Color Chart - Shailesh N. Humbad
- CSS Colors - Simon Jessey
- CSS Color Units - W3C
- CSS Maintenance Tip: Use a Color Glossary - Garrett Dimon
- CSS: Use Shorthand Hex Colors - Andrew B. King
- CSS Values for Colors - Mauricio Samy Silva
- If You Pick One Color, Pick Them All - Olivier Thereaux and Susan Lesch
- Is CSS3 RGBa Ready to Rock? (screen cast) - Andy Clarke
- The Color Stylesheet - Natalie Jost
- Use HTML Attributes, or CSS to Set Web Page Colors, But Don't Use Both - Jim Byrne
- Understanding CSS Colour Modes - Kilian Valkhof
- Designers vs. The Real World: Favorite Color - Cameron Adams
- Designing for Dyslexics: Part 2 of 3 - Mel Pedley
- Designing for the Color-Challenged: A Challenge - Thomas G. Wolfmaier
- Easy Color Picking on the Mac - Kevin Hale
- Find Color Synonyms with the HP Color Thesaurus - colourlovers
- Five Simple Steps to Designing with Colour - Mark Boulton
- Gray Text Revisited - Aycan Gulez
- How to Create Sublime Colours - Professor Odd Fellow
- Is the Web-Safe Palette Really Dead? - Joe Gillespie
- Is Your (Website's) Underwear Showing? - Jeffery Zeldman
- Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design - Luke Wroblewski
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Non-Dithering Colors by Hue -
Lynda Weinman
- Non-Dithering Colors by Value - Lynda Weinman
- Optimizing by Color: How Color Can Affect Site Activity and Performance - Boudewijn Vahrmeijer
- Photographic Palettes - Dave Shea
- Shifting Back - Dave Shea
- Testing The Readability Of Web Page Colors - Chris Ridpath, Jutta Treviranus, Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss
- The Mother of All Color Charts - Texas Precancel Club
- The Screen Versus Printed Color Artwork - Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
- The Web-Safe Color Dilemma - Lynda Weinman
- The Web, What's in a Colour? - Adrian Rayfield
- Updated Luminosity Colour Contrast Analysers - Gez Lemon
- Using Color in Information Display Graphics - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Using Color on the Internet - Lee Creek
- Using Colour And Type Effectively - Kevin Leitch
- Web Ignored Lessons from Hypertext, Says Expert Bernstein - Ann Light
- Web Page Color Scheming Using Your Photos - Suzanne Stephens
- Web-Safe Color Palette Discussion - Makiko Itoh and Nick Finck
- Which Color Palette? Optimizing Web Graphics
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