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Web Color

Understand and use color effectively on the Web. Learn how to select browser safe color palettes, non-dithering palettes, and choose readable color combinations. Download Color Lookup Tables (CLUT) in a variety of formats.
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Designing in Color

Web Design / HTML Guide Jennifer Krynin teaches how to write hexadecimal codes for color.

Colorizing the Web

Web Design / HTML Guide Jennifer Krynin escribes named colors and hexidecimal colors for adding color to a Web page.

Creating a Web Color Scheme

View a variety of ways to create a color scheme from a single base color. Methods include monochromatic, analogous, and triadic.

Is the Browser-Safe Color Palette Really Required?

It depends on who is viewing your Web page. Jennifer Krynin explains.

Using Browser Safe Colors

Here's how to make sure your colors show up correctly no matter what platform your viewers have.

Web Color Synchronization

Print designers know how difficult it can be to match colors on-screen with how they print. For Web designers, the problem is to make the color look consistent from one monitor and one browser to the next -- an even more daunting task.

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