The Color Tool presently contains 22 of the most widely used color palettes and we aim to add more. We have displayed the Web Safe Colors palette here as our sample palette because it is generally the widest used color palette on the Internet. In the event that you do not want to subscribe to The Color Tool you can always come back to this page to find your desired color combination using the Web Safe Colors palette here at The Color Tool.
The Palette Menu, right below The Color Tool logo on the top left of this page, displays all of the palette options available at The Color Tool at this time. Simply hover over the Palette Menu text links and a picture of that particular palette will be displayed on the top right of this screen. This is very helpful to let you know what palette you want to work with next. Click the "Subscribe" button below to Subscribe to The Color Tool today.
There are plenty of color tools and font tools within The Color Tool member's site. Take note of the buttons on the top right side of this page. The buttons with the numbers in the change the font size to that respective pixel value. Similarly, the buttons that say, Times, Geneva, Cursive, Courier, Monaco and Georgia change the font type to those respective font types.
The Web Safe Colors palette has 216 colors and is deemed safe for the web, because most monitors, including very old monitors can display these 216 colors correctly. Another factor to consider is web to print, i.e., will the printer be able to print the colors on the screen. This is particularly important for designers in web to print industries. Each of the 216 colors in the Web Safe Colors palette will display properly irregardless of which browser you are using, i.e., Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Safari, AOL, Opera, Live Rendering or other browser types, and irregardless of which platform you are using, i.e., PC (personal computer) or Mac (Apple or Macintosh computer).
Presently there are less than 1000 membership subscriptions available at The Color Tool. We are limiting our membership subscriptions at this time, for among other reasons, to provide the highest quality experience for our subscribers. Once the memberships reach a total of 1000, The Color Tool's present subscription plan will be closed. A new plan will likely come with a higher price, as well as higher functionality. Members already grand-fathered in will have the option to upgrade to these additional plans and options, although some of the increased functionality may be provided to the first 1000 members gratis.
Please note that the code on this page is heavy, i.e., in kilobyte size, as compared to the members version of this page. The members directories of The Color Tool are incredibly fast, as the site relies primarily on HTML and JavaScript code and not on images. Members have access to all of the colors available in the palettes displayed on the left. If you are into color this is the site for you, as we are working to add even more incredible color options and text effects, as well as more palette and color options. If you have a palette that you would like to see on our site that presently is not displayed in the list on your top left, then please let us know. We have image and file uploading programs to allow you to submit photos, documents and even multimedia files. If you submit a palette or color file that we end up using on The Color Tool, we will give you credit for the submission by listing your name, email address and/or web site on our links page, along with a description of you and/or your company, if you wish. Our web uploading program is presently available to those with current and valid subscriptions to The Color Tool.
Most of the palettes displayed at The Color Tool have a width of 300 pixels. The height varies. We have done our best to accommodate all viewers, including those viewing with their monitors set to a screen resolution of 800x600. However, we cannot emphasize enough how much better The Color Tool will look and work if your monitor's screen resolution is set to at least 1024x768 or higher, preferably.
The Color Tool displays the Hex Values and/or Color names in Tool Tips. What is a Tool Tip you may be asking? A Tool Tip is the small box that appears when you hover your mouse over a link or an item and the name or description of that item appears in a graphical box right by your mouse pointer. If you hover your mouse over the colors in the palette, whether you be on the background or foreground palette, a Tool Tip will appear displaying the Hex Value. In some cases the Tool Tips for the colors also include the Color name, as in the Web Named Palette, where you will find names like "LightSteelBlue" and the HKS palette options, where each HKS Color also has a specific HKS Value, i.e., HKS 56 K.
The Color Tool is Where Colors Are Displayed, as there are literally thousands of color combinations available for you to choose from at your own discretion. You get to see how a particular background color look with a specific font color, instead of putting up a site that has dark text on a dark background, or vice versa, and is very hard to read. Each page in The Color Tool that contains a palette with color changing options and/or font chaning options includes a Note Pad, which allows you to write your preferred colors and/or other notes and email them to yourself.
Whether you subscribe to The Color Tool or not, if you are in the design industry, it would behoove you to calibrate and profile your monitor. A monitor profile is the first profile you should create. Seeing color accurately is crucial, especially if you are making creative decisions involving the color you specify in your documents. Other factors to consider include Color Management, Color Settings and Color Space. Color Management assigns a profile to images that are generally all in the same profile. Color Settings include North America Web/Internet, North America Prepress 2, North America General Purpose 2, Monitor Color among others. It is a good idea to synchronize your design program for the color setting that is right for you and your project. The sRBG color space allows you to see how colors will display on non-calibrated monitors.
The Color Tool, as you may have noticed on our Home Page, includes music. Thus, you can sit back in the comfort of your home or office and/or elsewhere, listen to beautiful and interesting music and experiment with thousands of color combinations. Our site has a wide variety of music, including rock, jazz, classical and even some country. If you are a musician and wish to submit your music to us for possible inclusion on our site, then please contact us and let us know in the comments section of the Contact form. If we post your music on our site, we will give you credit by listing your name, email address, web site and/or other biographical information on our site, if you wish.
Outside of the common Hex Value and RBG Value methods of defining color there are other methods, including color models based on CMYK, HSV (Hue Saturation Value), HSB (Hues Saturation Brightness), Grayscale and others. CMYK is the abbreviation for cyan, magenta, yellow, black. CMYK colors are used in a four color print process. Grayscale is an image representation whereby each pixel is represented by a single sample value representing overall luminance on a scale that goes from black to white.
Most web and graphical design programs include methods of adding specific colors to what is referred to as a Swatches Library. A Swatch Library is a predefined list of colors or are colors that you have chosen to be placed in the library and will generally be used often. Additionally, most web and graphical design programs include some form of Color Picker, where you can actually pick a color on the monitor with your mouse and the program will grab that color and put it in your color swatches library.
The Color Tool has several palette and color options. For example, members can work with these Palette options: ANPA Colors, DIC Color Guide, Focoltone Colors, HKS E, HKS E Process, HKS K, HKS K Process, HKS N, HKS N Process, HKS Z, HKS Z Process, Mac OS, Photo Filter Colors, Toyo Color Finder, Trumatch Colors, Visibone, Visibone2, Web Hues, Web Named, Web Safe Colors, Web Spectrum, Windows, plus others.
If you have content about color that you would like to display on The Color Tool, i.e., a poem about color or a well written essay about color and would like it to be displayed on our site, feel free to contact us. There are presently over 4,000 colors available to members that allow you to choose your desired color combinations intuitively and with ease. Memberships are available for six (6) and twelve (12) month periods, where you can login to The Color Tool at any time during that period. Please read our site policies to learn more.
The Color Tool offers Free Code, including Free HTML Code and Free JavaScript Code for Webmasters. Be sure to check out our Free Code links found below and on our Site Map. Webmasters can learn a lot at The Color Tool. We offer Free Code for changing background colors and free code for changing font colors. This technique is known as changes made "On The Fly". Although "On The Fly" often refers to chaning CSS (Creative Style Sheets), it can also refer to simply changing foreground and/or background colors. Webmasters can look how to make a Bookmark text link or Bookmark button for Free. Check out our Free Code links below and on our Site Map. Webmasters can also learn how to make an email link (commonly referred to as a "Tell a Friend" link) just like the one found on the bottom of this page. For an example, click the "Refer" link found below.
Define Color: As it relates to computer graphics, painting and the like, Color can be defined as a visible characteristic of shapes, objects, images or things that come about from the light they emit, transmit or reflect. The Color Tool emits and transmits a whole lot of colors.
Define Palette: As it relates to computer graphics, the word Palette can be defined as a set of available colors. Most web and graphical design programs contain color palette options, whereby each comprises a series of related colors. An SVGA (Super VGA) system can display 16,000,000 different colors.
Imagine all the color palettes at your finger tips. That is virtually what is available to our subscribers now. 23 Palette options come with the present subscription plan and so much more is coming. Sign up for The Color Tool today and have thousands of color combinations at your fingertips.
Wingdings are listed below for your viewing enhancement. There is a button on each subscriber page that includes color changing options, that changes the font to Wingdings.
