How can color in Web design focus attention, inform decisions, inspire action, organize information, highlight elements, balance composition and enrich experiences? We’ll explore answers to these questions in this chapter and look at several examples of good color usage in websites.

Soft gradients of sunrises and sunsets from the western hemisphere.

removing the figurative and compositional elements from an image,
what is left behind is the color, allowing one to more objectively appreciate the palate and its harmonies.
using color extraction software and adobe illustrator, buxton has created a number of charts that reveal a surprising amount of information,
imparted by the colors alone.

Solarized is a sixteen color palette designed for use with terminal and gui applications.

My custom prompt isn’t perfect, and it’s certainly a lot more basic than some that you can create, but it does a great job of visually distinguishing between input and output which is exactly what I needed. Fortunately, it’s not terribly difficult to enable something like this; although bash prompt examples around the internet range from gibberish to hundreds of lines of cryptic functions that you have to load into your bash session, understanding the basics of a custom bash prompt in order to make your own peace with Terminal is quite simple.

DAMN. 90s-era color cycling with JavaScript.

online color resources

Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image.

A new range of colors for web design, every day.