• Two excellent introductions — simple and clear, brief yet thorough — are Understanding Color and (to explain a wider variety of concepts, including hue, saturation, and brightness, plus grayscale and websafe colors, in 8 short pages) a Color Tutorial.
• Visual summaries of Basic Color Concepts (hue, saturation, brightness) includes a "split out the white" technique for understanding saturation.
• A web-page (and website) with lots of resources to explore, especially
for the physiology and psychology of human vision, is from
Word-IQ. { hint:
Most of the page, in Sections 1-2 and 4-7, is interesting and easily readable,
so don't
be dismayed by the mathematical interlude of "Human Color Models" in
Section 3, since you can skip it and return later. }
• And how
does vision differ between humans and other animals? Ultraviolet
Vision
• The 216 web-safe colors are shown, arranged
in a table-grid and
a flower and
a big
flower that expands when you click on it. { The "big flower"
page also has resources to explore: Home-Page, Color-FAQ,...
} Lynda explains
reasons for modern web-artists to ignore these color limitations (if they
don't want to be stuck in a rut from 1997) or (to avoid dithering for
the rare websurfers who are still using old 8-bit systems) pay attention
to them. But instead
of just 216, how about 4096? The 4096 web-smart
colors are much less
artistically limiting, yet are safe (to avoid dithering) on most monitors
and computers now being
used. Here are two intro-pages from More
Crayons & 4096
Colors. (and later
I'll add more pages about color-on-the-web)
THREE TYPES
OF LINKS in this website for Whole-Person Education:
An ITALICIZED LINK keeps you inside a page, moving you to another part of it. Above, a NON-ITALICIZED LINK is page-adding, opening a new page in a new window. Below, a NON-ITALICIZED LINK is page-replacing, opening a new page in this window. |
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