Color: Schemes--Exploration and generation

In the posts that follow you'll find links to color scheme generators and comparison charts, plus utilities and applications which can be used to explore the relationships between different colors in a variety of ways. These can be useful for building color sets that will look good on your website or in print projects.
Some work directly in your browser through either Java, JavaScript or with a Flash or Shockwave plugin; Others are applications or utilities that you download and use as separate programs or in conjunction with other programs.
Depending on which site or application you choose, they will display the colors side-by-side and also show the codes for these colors in different formats, i.e.: RGB, hexadecimal, CMYK, Lab, HSB, HTML named colors, etc. Additionally, there are some which will create downloadable text files containing a list of the colors you choose, and others will even generate swatch files that you can save and which can be imported directly into your favorite applications.

I referred to "HTML "named colors" above.
This refers to a list of 147 colors
defined by the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Specification
which use common language, such as red, blue, green, black, etc. When used as part of HTML/CSS/XML coding these real-language names are interpreted by browsers the same way as the RGB/Hex code colors they represent.
So, instead of coding a color as "#00FFFF" or using RGB values such as "0,255,255" you may simply type "Aqua" and the proper color will be displayed when the code is rendered onscreen.
Below are links to this list of Named Colors at a few sites:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp
http://www.aumha.org/html/colorsb.htm
See the following link for boatloads of more information on named colors and a vast tree of links. There are many standards and systems for naming colors, and most of them aren't specific to being displayed by a web browser. However, by cross-referencing and by doing a little work and calculation you should be able to come close to replicating named oil paint or house paint colors, for example, for use in a browser. Just keep in mind the differences between reflective and transmissive color, and remember that not all screen colors are printable, and not all print colors can be displayed onscreen.
http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorspot.html

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*Hardware Overview:*
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
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Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
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*ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro:*
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
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Revision ID: 0x0000
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Hi Grandma,
18 point Helvetica Bold .
There is an Apple Support Community called Vision:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/accessibility/vision?view=discussions
I shall ask the Moderators (Hosts) to move your discussion to that forum.
Kind regards,
Ian.

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Attachments:
silver_contrsch.JPG ‏76 KB
control_scheme_silver.vi ‏15 KB
default_contrsch.JPG ‏79 KB

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Message Edited by Jeff B on 05-30-2006 10:54 AM

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Any suggestions? Thanks so much, and I am sorry for the long-winded description. tl;dr look at the pictures.
[http://i.imgur.com/vmLZ6.png selected items]
[http://i.imgur.com/d8xsa.png example1]
[http://i.imgur.com/2OE9J.png example2]
[http://i.imgur.com/1lhvb.png example3]
[http://i.imgur.com/UWOOp.png example4]

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*http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/generic/nsTextFrameThebes.cpp#3349
*http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1331845

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*background: #fcffdd
*foreground: #5e5e58
*cursorColor: #5e5e58
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