Color
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Tutorials
- A Quick Color Explanation - Joe Burns
- Color Blind Essentials - Daniel Fluck
- Quick Color Class - Adrian Roselli
- Type and Colour - Joe Clark
- Understanding Color by Anne Coneen
Theory & Models
- A Precise CSS3 Color Table - Eric A. Meyer New!
- 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
- Design Festival: Color Theory 101 - Jason Beaird
- The Red Queen Color Theory - Bob Stein
- Wharton Assitt's Pages on Colour Theory and Typeface Design - Wharton Assitt
Comprehensive Sites
- ColorCombos.com
- Color Marketing Group
- Color Matters - J. L. Morton
- Color Vision - Cal Henderson
- International Color Consortium
- PANTONE
- The Lighthouse
- VisiBone
- Virtual Colour Museum
Color Contrast
- Accessibility Tools for Quality Assurance: Color Contrast - Martin Kliehm
- Assistive Technology Experiment: High Contrast - Jon Whiting
- Calculating Color Contrast - Brian Suda
- 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
- Color Contrast Tests for System Color FieldText with Opacity:0.54 - Steve Faulkner
- Checking Colour Contrast - Leonie Watson
- Color Blindness Myths and Misunderstandings - Joe Dolson
- Colour Contrast and CSS Sprite Maps - Gez Lemon
- Colour Contrast Check Tool Updated - Jonathan Snook
- Colour Bland: Contrast - Dave Shea
- Contrast - Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 6 - Dey Alexander
- Contrast is King - Leslie Jensen-Inman
- Contrast Rebellion - Zoltan Gocza and Richard Gazdik
- Interesting Cause - http://contrastrebellion.com - WebAIM Thread
- Effective Colour Contrast - S.R. Emerson
- Example Luminosity Contrast Ratios - Gez Lemon
- JavaScript Contrast Class - Gez Lemon
- Light Text On a Dark Background vs. Readbility - Roger Johansson
- Luminosity Contrast Ratio Algorithm - Gez Lemon
- Luminosity Contrast Ratio Main Colour Contrast Analyser - Gez Lemon
- Minimum Color Contrast Ratio Changed in WCAG 2 - Joe Dolson
- WCAG 2.0: Do You Have Enough Color Contrast on Your Web Site? - Justin Thorp
Color Vision Deficiencies
- 5 Questions About Color Blindness - Daniel Fluck
- 9 Percent Of Men And .5% Of Women Are Colorblind - Susan Weinschenk
- A New Web-Based Colour Vision Test - City University London.
- Accommodating Color Blindness - Paul Hoffman
- An Explanation of Colorblindness - Jon Hicks
- Color and Accessibility - merttol
- Colorblind HomePage - Terrace L. Waggoner
- Colorblind Leading the Blind - Andy Baio
- Color Blindness - Wikipedia
- Colour Blindness and the Web - Richard Ingram
- Color Blindness Tests - Daniel Fluck
- Colblindor - Daniel Fluck
- Color Theory for the Color Blind - Mario Parise
- Colour-Vision Deficiency - Joe Clark
- 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
- Everybody is Color Blind - Daniel Fluck
- Eye Resources - Understanding Color Blindness
- How the Color Deficient Person Sees the World - Color vision testing
- More Adaptations for Color Blindness - Joe Clark
- Red-Green Color Blindness - Daniel Fluck
- Shades of Accessibility - Etre
- Types of Color Blindness - Daniel Fluck
- We Are Colorblind - Tom van Beveren
- What do colour-blind people see?
- What is Color Blindness? - Daniel Fluck
- What is colourblindness? - Joe Clark
Color Tools
Articles/Related Links
- A Guide to CSS Colors in Web Design - Alexander Dawson
- Accessible Colors - Menghini Calderon Fabrizio Antonio
- Accessible Colour Combinations - Roger Johansson
- Accessibility for Web Writers, part 5 - Dey Alexander
- Accessibility vs. Alpha Transparency - Ben Buchanan
- Automatic Color Harmony Tools - Andrew B. King
- Change the Color of Visited Links - Jakob Nielsen
- Cheating Color - Jason Santa Maria
- Choosing the Right Color Palette - grokdotcom.com
- CMYK (for Those Who Do RGB ) - Dave Shea
- ColorAdd: A Color Coding System - Daniel Fluck
- Color and Usability - grokdotcom
- Colour Bland: Value
- Color Books
- Color Chart Pickers - Marie
- Color is Context
- Color is Information
- Color in Opera 10 - HSL, RGB and Alpha Transparency - Molly E. Holzschlag
- 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
- Color Survey Results - XKCD
- Colour Your Blog to Maximize Readability - Glenda Watson Hyatt
- Coloring Your World - Part 1: Color Basics - Derrick Ypenburg
- Converting from HSL to RGB() and Hexadecimal Colors - Estelle Weyl
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CSS Color
- Always Specify A Background Colour - Christopher Hester
- CSS Color Chart - Shailesh N. Humbad
- CSS Colors - Simon Jessey
- CSS: Use Shorthand Hex Colors - Andrew B. King
- How to Look Like a Wiz with RGBa - Virginia DeBolt
- If You Pick One Color, Pick Them All - Olivier Thereaux and Susan Lesch
- Is CSS3 RGBa Ready to Rock? (screen cast) - Andy Clarke
- Understanding CSS Colour Modes - Kilian Valkhof
- Design Patterns and Examples for Colour Blindness - Roger Johansson
- Designers vs. The Real World: Favorite Color - Cameron Adams
- Designing for Color Impaired Users - Wade Preston Shearer
- Designing for Dyslexics: Part 2 of 3 - Mel Pedley
- Designing for the Color-Challenged: A Challenge - Thomas G. Wolfmaier
- Does Color Impact How Users View a Web Portal Page? - J. Owens and S. Shrestha
- Does Stripping Your Blog of Colour Leave It Readable? - Glenda Watson Hyatt
- Easy Color Picking on the Mac - Kevin Hale
- 'Fluro' Colours - Roger Hudson
- Guideline 1.4 Separate Background from Foreground - Olga Revilla
- How Colour Communicates Meaning - Rob Mills
- Hue, Saturation, Lightness - Jon Hicks
- Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design - Luke Wroblewski
- Optimizing by Color: How Color Can Affect Site Activity and Performance - Boudewijn Vahrmeijer
- Specify a Text Colour for img Elements - Roger Johansson
- You React To Colors Based On Your Culture - Susan Weinschenk
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