3 ways to figure out your web color palette

[kestrell]

Reposting this from an email I sent to the web design list, as I found the color generator provided by the instructor didn't provide enough description for my former art student self.

I wanted to find the RGB values for a specific color, and found that I could just open a search engine and search for:
How do you make dark green in rgb?
And I found easy results.

It also led me to this website which I am now hooked on:
This website has all the information you need to create colors: the edit field allows you to enter any color value, i.e., hex number, RGB, or just the plain color word, such as "dark green," and then gives you all the ways to create it.
It also lists colors by name, defines all sorts of color terminology, and tells you if the color is web safe.
ColorHexa.com
https://www.colorhexa.com/

Lastly, if you have a favorite artist or painting, you can open a search engine and enter something like this:
Vermeer +color palette
And find out which specific colors that artist used.

Comments

Thanks so much for sharing your journey.

[jesse_the_k]

That's the niftiest color tool I've ever seen. And the search engine trick is fabulous!

I can't speak to its screen-reader design, but I'm cognitively able to follow some of the instruction at
https://css-tricks.com

His examples are side-by-side, with CSS definitions on the left (first) and HTML deployment on the right (second)

How CSS Selectors Work https://css-tricks.com/how-css-selectors-work/

Re: Thanks so much for sharing your journey.

[kestrell]

The color scheme picker was something I posted years ago --I don't want to look at the actual date-- on livejournal but, when we were doing color schemes this week in my web design class, I remembered how much I loved this little tool, especially as it is difficult to find anything on color that is accessible and uses actual words instead of just color images.

The class instructor loved it btw, and mentioned she had searched fo something like this but hadn't found anything.

Thanks for the CSS Tips resource!