http://color.hailpixel.com/

Part of color theory.

If you look at this gallery, for example: http://www.thomlab.com/gallery.htm , you'll see that many of the paintings follow the same way of picking emotionally appealing colors. Firstly, there's a really dark foreground color used for some objects that are extremely close by, at the edges of the frame, like a "door jamb" to guide the viewer inside. Then there's a lighter color for the midground (is that a word?) and a still lighter one for the distant background, like the sky, to hint that the pictured world is huge. Can we get a tool that generates triples of colors suitable for this?

That said, I would love a page that had some ipso-lorem type code C, Perl, js, C++, Java, Etc where each click would change the 'type' of element (keyword, comment, etc) and you could mouse around to set the color. Then right click and download the vim color scheme.

However, that page is not very good for creating dark-background themes. It’s missing a bunch of styles that I saw fairly often in C# code, and their default light colors look awful on a dark background.

    fswatch ~/Downloads "mv ~/Downloads/colorscheme.less /somewhere/else/with/assets && firefox -remote \"openURL(127.0.0.1:3000/whatever, new-tab)\""

[0]: https://github.com/alandipert/fswatch.git

[1]: replace fswatch with inotifywait on linux

[2]: I actually use shell-wrapped AppleScript to remote control Chrome from the command line.

[3]: also rb-inotify, rb-fsevent, rb-fchange gems (the last one is for Windows)

A bit of feedback: it seems that there is only two dimensions of changing the base color, corresponding with the two dimensions in which you can move your mouse. I can also see by the text overlay that saturation is locked in at 50%. It'd be nice if we had control over saturation. Maybe with a slider?

[1]http://cl.ly/image/1C413p040J0R

I am completely unable to coordinate colors. And algorithms (``on the color wheel take 12 o'clock, and 5 and 7'') are very limited. What I find useful is a site where people who are into this kind of thing contribute their work and I use it, with grateful acknowledgement.

http://www.colourlovers.com/ is another good one, though somewhat bloated.

   #c65e54
   rgb(198, 94, 84)       // RGB here
   hsl(5, 50%, 55%)
   hcl(32, 48%, 53%)
   rgb(198, 94, 84)       // and here again

You should remove the shadows, or provide an option to turn them off perhaps. It might give a better view of how the colors play with each other.

http://colorschemedesigner.com/#

http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr

Here's a question: I'd love to take my print copy of Albers' color theory stuff and record some of the color codes, maybe just by eyeballing the screen and then the page. What's a good way to calibrate my monitor so what I'm seeing is close to universally "correct"?

EDIT: Spelling

Try searching for "autumn" or "forest" or "shrimp"

http://colorco.de/