A little color theory for you

"In 1903, Crayola had eight colors in its standard package. Today, there are 120, along with special packs like Gem Tones and Silver Swhirls. What happened? Above, from Weather Sealed, shows the growing color selection (and a few color retirements) in the standard package from 1903 to now."

("Light page example" is what I have in mind)

"Finally, which equation should be chosen and how should it be used?

• for basic / fast calculations, you can use dE76 but beware of its problems
• for graphics arts use we recommend dE94 and perhaps dE-CMC 2:1..."

"ColorLib is a library for the Processing programming environment. It makes it easy to import color palettes from different sources like files (.act or .cs) or webservices (colr, kuler and colourLovers). It has some handy functions to create color harmonies and sorting colors."

IKEA 2007 catalog normalized

If viewed with Safari, color managemnt "works"; no other known browser shows the picture as created.

via Simon Fraser