Category: Color

JavaScript Color Fading Script

Are you looking for another simple effect that can bring something brilliant to your website appearance? Try this lightweight JavaScript Color Fading Script. It gives you color transition that is fading gradually to another color.

You can apply this script for tables, divs and many more.
Some elements that you can target are:
- background
- border
- text color

You will need to set the hex value of starting color, then hex value to fade to and number of times to divide the color difference. Experiment a bit on some different transition speed values to see how the color fading effect work beautifully for you!
The good news is, Michael Leigeber has written this script with the demo page! Visit the site to check it out

Color Combinations and Color Schemes by colorcombos.com

Need to find the perfect color combination for your project? colorcombos.com will help web developers quickly select and test website color combinations. The heart of the site is the Combo Tester, which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen.
The colorcombos.com library contains hundreds of color swatches, along with their color hex values.

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Color Name & Hue

When you need to categorize your color choice especially when you are blind to color, this thing could be a really big problem to you. Thanks to this tool, because now you can assign a certain color to a main hue using color sliders to know the color name instantly just by entering RGB (Red-Green-Blue) values, HSB (Hue-Saturation-Brightness) numbers or a hexadecimal code for a color.

This tool could be quite handy because the list of colors comprises 1640 different color names extracted from several sources on the web. Try it now!

Color Palette Generator

This tool will create 10 shades of the base color, at varying degrees of opacity. The top row emulates opacity over a white background, the bottom over black. The opacity values are 100% opaque, 75%, 50%, 25% and 10% on the top row. The bottom row begins at 85% rather than 100% and continues on as the first.

Hexadecimal Color Code Chips Table

This page shows color chips generated at regular intervals and defined by the six-digit hexadecimal representation of color of the form #RRGGBB, where RR, GG, and BB are the hexadecimal values for the red, green, and blue values of the color.

Book Covers by colour

This one is really interesting. Here you can find book covers by its colour. Simply enter a hex value in the search field and hit enter and you get: Lots of books with covers in your selected colour. Really good if you are looking for some new graphical inspiration

Color palettes from clothing pictures

Here you will find over 1500 different color palettes that were extrapolated from Sartorialist clothing pictures. Really great color resource which is updated daily.

Instant Colour Schemes

This is a nice color scheme tool: You enter a word or phrase and it grabs 5 related images from Yahoo Images, and get the 6 most prominent colors from each.