Colors and Graphics

Working with Colors

Plastiliq PixelPicker is a useful color picker tool that gets the pixels color under your mouse pointer on the screen and translates it into a number of different color formats.

HEX to RGB and rgb to hex Color Converter - When creating your website it can be very useful to know the hexadecimal values of RGB colors and vice versa. For instance if you need to match a graphics color to your background value all you'd need to do is find out the RGB value of the graphic in your graphics program and convert it to HEX. On the other hand if you already have a web page designed and you'd like to make a header graphic for your site you could take the HEX background color and convert it to RGB for use in your graphics program.

Convert Pantone Colors to RGB and Hex - This color conversion chart allows you to convert Pantone® spot colors to RGB color values (Red/Green/Blue) and Hexadecimal color values.

Web Safe Color Chart - Although most monitors and video cards sold today support millions of colors, they sometimes come shipped with a default display settings of 800x600 pixels for the monitor resolution and 256 colors. Many consumers don't realize that they can change these settings. That is why it is a good idea to design your web site using a browser safe color pallet if you want every visitor to your site to see the colors that you put there. If you don't use web safe colors, visitors who have their monitors set to 256 colors will see the monitor's best guess as to what the color should be - it will substitute for your colors the closest approximation in the web safe pallet - sometimes with very unattractive results.

Color Blender - Pick a color value format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick the number of midpoints you'd like to see. The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.

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