Color

Links

• Color Hunt

• Handpicked list of 18181 unique color names from various sources and thousands of user submissions

• Colormind - Color scheme generator that uses deep learning.

• Building Your Color Palette (HN)

• Cloudflare Design - Preview palettes against UI elements.

• pastel - Command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.

• Image Color Picker - Image color picker and palette generator.

• Contrast - MacOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.

• Sip - Better way to collect, organize & share your colors.

• Designing accessible color systems (2019)

• SRCERY - Dark color scheme.

• Who can use this color combination?

• Happy Hues - Color palette inspiration site that acts as a real world example as to how the colors could be used in your design projects.

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Color - Light-hearted introduction to understanding digital color reproduction.

• Brown; color is weird (2020) (HN)

• The Weird World in RGB (2019)

• Pywal - Tool that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.

• HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space (2020)

• HSLuv - Human-friendly HSL. (Code)

• colors.lol - Overly descriptive color palettes. (Code)

• Color gradient generator

• Building dark mode on Stack Overflow (2020) (HN)

• Duo - Collection of color combinations that I've curated from personal projects or that I've come across on the web. (HN)

• color-scheme.js - Generate nice, pretty color schemes with JavaScript. (Code)

• Themer - Takes a set of colors and generates themes for your development environment (editors, terminals, wallpapers, and more). (Code)

• Color Names - Collaborative effort to name every color in the RGB/web space. (HN)

• Chromotome - Collection of color palettes saved for personal use. (Code)

• Research links on color theory (2020)

• A short history of color theory

• 35+ white paint colors that top designers swear by

• Scale - Generative way to create color scales. (Code)

• Sanzo Wada - Dictionary of Color Combinations. (Code)

• Palettes from A Dictionary of Colour Combinations

• Color Copy Paste - Copy & paste colour directly from your camera to Figma/Sketch/Chrome. (Code)

• Perceptually Smooth Multi-Color Linear Gradients (2020)

• Piggment - The gradient you have always wanted.

• Material Design Palette Generator (Code)

• Colour Theory On 80 Display Boards (1944)

• Color Palette Generator

• Coolors - Super fast color schemes generator.

• atcq - Implementation of Ant-Tree Color Quantization (ATCQ), described by Pérez-Delgado in various papers.

• Color contrast checker, analyser and color suggestions

• Adobe Color - Color wheel, a color palette generator.

• iroiro - Beautiful Colors Lookup in CLI.

• consistent-shading - Shade consitency for various hues, based on luminance.

• Sorted CSS Colors - Sort the named CSS colors in a way that it shows related colors together. (Code)

• Cascading Colors - Generate dynamic and themable color palettes using CSS custom properties, and allow (persistent) user-adjustments with a bit of light-weight JS. (Code)

• Basic Color Science For Graphics Engineer (2018)

• Bjango Color Creator Templates - Photoshop, Sketch and Affinity Designer documents that use base colors to generate larger palettes.

• Palettte App (Explanation)

• Reasoning about colors (2020) (Lobsters)

• How do humans perceive color? (2020)

• Random Color Cycler (Code)

• Colorable - Color combination contrast tester. (Code)

• How software gets color wrong (2020)

• Random color generator for JavaScript (Code)

• Practical Color Theory for People Who Code (2016)