Color
Updated 2/11/97

Technical and How-to
The Discriminating Color Palette
An informative article about on-screen color and cross platform color palettes.
DMS Guide to Web Color: Palettes & Gamma
Instruction and examples for working with the browser-safe palette.
Exporting GIFs with Web-safe Colors
Digital Video Evangelist George Jardine demonstrates using Web-safe colors in Adobe Illustrator 6.0.2.
Gamma Correction Home Page
Begins with "What is Gamma Correction and Why do I Care?"
Netscape Navigator's color palette on Windows
An extremely brief explanation of the Netscape palette.
Optimizing Web Graphics
An excellent explanation of the various aspects of using color in Web pages.
Preparing Graphics for the Web
View the difference between GIF and JPEG, adaptive palette and system palette.

Color-related Products
True-to-Life Color
PC Magazine contributing editor Luisa Simone's review of palette-creation and management products.
Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and more)
Digital Frontiers (HVS Color, HVS Webfocus)
Equilibrium (Debabelizer)
Pantone (ColorDrive)
Silicon Graphics (CosmoColor)
Sonnetech (Colorific)

Color Choosers
Note: There are dozens of color choosers available on the Web. These are the ones we've found to be interesting and useful, but you can find a more complete list on Yahoo!

216 Color Guide
Helps you get the most out of the Web browser palette, with help on background and font colors as well.
The Browser Safe Color Palette
Tips for using non-dithering colors in your graphics, including several useful palettes of non-dithering colors, arranged by hue and value, with both hex and rgb codes.
Color Center
From hIdaho Design, a JavaScript application that let's you quickly and easily try out text and background color combinations.
Rainbow!
A high-tech gadget for creating text banners in wild rainbow colors.
Thalia's Guide: The Color Page
A series of databases, with and without actual color swatches, that show hex and rgb codes. Also includes a color composing engine for custom colors.
Victor Engel's No Dither Netscape Color Palette
A useful explanation of the Netscape color cube, with a clickable selector.