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- decemberfall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Whoever created this page is a lifesaver, i've been using one with about half the color options for years, seriously this one is awesome.
If you are looking for one to match a color you already have, pixie is a great choice.
http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html - noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15designers aren't the only people who make webpages.
i'm a solo developer and am colorblind.
who's going to tell me which colors go together.
ass. - AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9If your printer can't be calibrated, you should be using a real printing press. This site is helpful if you designing a webpage and you need to match a company's pantone color set using hex values, or if you're working with a printing press and they don't have time to order in the pantones that you need, so you specify the cmyk instead.
No one wants to hear you complain about your crappy printer. This is a good resource. - MisterKen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6When I tried to calmly explain that every site looks slightly different on each monitor, he abruptly cut me off and said 'Yeah, I don't care about Amazon or IBM, this is US and we need to code it so the colors match everywhere...that's WHY we hired YOU...you are supposed to know the how to do that!'
All this was said while the head of IT was behind him making 'crazy person' and 'he's been drinking' gestures.
One of the best/worst meetings I have ever had. - eleven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Just a quick note that the conversions on this page do not match the official pantone color conversions from the "pantone color bridge" book. Of course they're close but if you are looking for the real tables you'll want to check out this book:
http://www.pantone.com/products/products.asp?idArea=1&idProduct=304 - pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ummm...I am a graphic designer. I can explain pretty much every color model you've ever heard of and then some.
While I'm commenting to defend my honor, the idea of converting Pantone colors (designed to allow a standard for matching printed material) to RGB to be displayed on a monitor (where a color can vary hugely from your screen to your clients) is a little silly. The author of this chart pretty much says so himself. The variance on a monitor makes precise color matching for the web an impossible endeavor. - squidreturns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@noodlez et al:
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
It gives you color theory, palattes, and allows you to view the page as if you were colorblind based on several varieties of colorblindness. As a developer with little sense of design or asthetics, I'm pretty happy to let the color wheel select themes for me based on a simple click of the mouse and a few sliders! - gelgod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@SteaminTmann
Graphic Designer=Moron? I'm a drummer too. I guess I'm the stupidest person on the planet.
Thanks for the insult. - thall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I notice the first paragraph on that site is exactly the same as the description given on wikipedia for CMYK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmyk). I wonder who copied from whom.
- dadrew1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5As a quick note Zenkai, you can have a PS doc opened, use your eyedropper, click in the file and drag out onto other windows and sample the color that way... I've found it waaaay useful, especially because you can't do it in Illustrator!
- legbend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4For photoshop users, you can just press the "Color Libraries" button in the Photoshop Color Picker to get to the Pantone libraries. Choose a color there and press "Picker" to get back to the HEX, Web, Lab, CMYK values.
http://www.photoshoplab.com/get-your-pantone-colors-quickly.html - MisterKen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We designed an identity for a client and extended our branding work to their website.
During a final review of the website the head of finance took out the newly printed business card and dramatically said 'I have something to show you'.
He then took the card and held it up to the company logo on the screen.
With raised eyebrows and a sense of triumph and says 'see anything wrong here?...the color does not match...and every monitor I try this at looks different...I think you guys HTML'd it wrong...' - ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@piwy:
I said grayscale, and I meant it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorblindness#Monochromacy - Lemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you're running Firefox can I also recommend the ColorZilla extension, which allows you to sample any colour in the broswer window and gives you hex and RGB values as well as a great colour picker and zoom options. When using with the webdev extension it's pretty handy...
http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/ - porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is helpful for ALL graphic designers (as well as production artists) to have learned CMYK colour mixing theory at some point in their career.
- sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am a coloblind designer as well (graphic and web, btw). I am basically "color sensitive" to pale earthtones, and for all intents and purposes, I have what seems to me to be a normal color perception in a pretty healthy range. When I get into trouble, I usually just ask somebody, such as my wife or any other female nearby (mostly to mitigate any potential color problems, since there are MUCH fewer cases of female colorblindness than males). I like charts like this, because it is a reference tool that reassures me when I am working with colors that are tricky for me. I also like the online color matching tools where you can get ideas of color themes and such. Sites like that are a real help, because I get ideas to put colors together that I may not ordinarily use. For final runs, though I always get a concensus from non color-challenged people, just to be sure. Hey, if I was otherwise disabled, I would most likely get help with something I needed.
- regeya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Tell the head of finance to clean out the Intarweb pipes, and it'll look fine.
- empirikal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just a heads up for you people—there have been a few sites like this and pantone will force them to shut it down. If you're smart you will download the page... I failed to do so last time...
- Continuum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But I have met Graphic Designers that do not know what CMYK is or even that colours vary from screen to screen. Imagine how frustrating it is to deliver a printed proof and have them say "That isn't the colour that was on my screen!"
Then again, I work with some pretty odd designers. - matriculated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I seen other PMS to RGB sites but this is still a nice find. I kind of wonder though, if everybody has their monitor calibrated differently what use is using PMS? People will "see" slightly different colors because of calibration inconsistencies.
Oh well. - ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@decemberfall:
Thanks a bunch for that link! I've never seen that app before, but it's now in my start-up directory! I can't tell you how many times I've print-screened, opened PS, and sampled. Kick-ass man! - wozley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You just saved me years of my life!
- ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Are you really noodlez? I've wondered if there are CB designers out there... are you fully colorblind (grayscale) or just partially? How do you do your initial layout and design work? I'm just curious; no offense is intended.
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The best colour theory reading I believe still exists in books on Japanese colour theory, as they are a great source of inspiration. I still have some from the late 1980s and mid 1990s floating around somewhere, perhaps I ought to dig(g) them up.
- cosmovi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Finally something better than html-color-codes.com! :D
- thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+11then you wouldnt be a very good designer, would you?
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn, squid, that thing is handy. Gracias, senor!
- sunimoto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you are working on a project that will be printed, I would advise against using this site as your guideline. Get Pantone book if you are printing in Pantone colors or ask your printer service to send you the actual printout of the colors, especially if you are working in CMYK. Designing with incorrectly calibrated monitor might produce very disappointing results when you see your prints. Better don't put your trust into the colors you seen on the screen, get them printed on paper by the printer that will be used for your production.
- eleven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well not really as the conversions on the page aren't the official pantone ones anyways. They have very specific values that you will not find by just converting yourself. They are much more accurate than doing a quick conversion is PS or AI. All that being said both RGB and CMYK are always pretty loose compared to pantone spots anyways - no matter who does the conversion.
- betona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's a site I've used for years that allows you to see the text and background together to instantly see what it looks like. You can figure out real fast if that orange on purple ;-) is going to work out okay:
http://www.zspc.com/color/index-e.html - orangetiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It was hard finding a place to convert Pantones to web based codes. Real sharp, nice find. Also it was a pain to trick the old program Art Directors toolkit to give a close value, but I have a much older version of the program. Also Pantone.com has a pantone solid to CMYK conversion in a pdf. I can't find the link, but I can post it somewhere if anyone needs the file. Page downloaded and saved
- bcrockett, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I should have taken your advice a year ago, now it's gone (the Pantone, anyway). If you have a copy, care to send it along?
- janmc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have to laugh at the "sense of triumph" comment. Poor guy :)
- ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@dadrew:
Yeah, I know, I'm just stoked that I don't NEED to have PS open. When I'm doing interface layout, for example, the graphic files are done already. When I need to sample a color (before, anyway), I needed to open PS, and grab it that way. Ctr+Alt+C is definitely the preferred option. - superzorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Amazing. Hard to beleive.
- kskov2lq, on 12/07/2008, -0/+0This is SO helpful. Great tool.
- caliban666, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Simply awesome --10 years ago I had to make my own much more primitive version of this -- and put it on line for my own convenience and for others. When I closed that site there was nothing nearly as good to replace it -- until now. Thanks to everyone involved in making, maintaining and finding this site!
- gelgod, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5OH MY GOD!! Thank You!!! This is great.
- decemberfall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@noodlez
don't feel bad one of my college professors was color blind, so one of our VB6 projects was to make him a color chart. When he'd click on a color in this box, it would tell him what color it was in a label, I was always evil though and made all my project backgrounds pink (cause I'm a girl and it's my favorite color) he always thought they were grey, and no one ever told him the difference :) - Resilient, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This will definately prove to be useful. Great find!
- noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9the only thing that would make this better is if it suggested color combos, too.
- Nick519, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As a designer, I have to praise the person who posted this. Converting Pantone to CMYK is always a nightmare! It's easy to find conversions for CMYK to RGB and Hex (and back again), but not Pantone, which is a proprietary system. Download this sucker, people, because Pantone will squash it like a bug.
- BaniPani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I recommend http://www.colorblender.com/
Easy to use color picker. - ozonew4m, on 09/05/2008, -0/+0Yeah for something so common color charts are often very hard to find.. I spent hours and hours once looking for a specific color and all i could find was rubbish... One of the sites i often use now is color-chart.org. Its not a very pretty site but they do have loads of different charts and information about color.. It was particularly interesting to read a bit about pantone, I had no idea they were so big http://www.color-chart.org/pantone-charts.php
- sawyer3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@oak
so what you're saying is essentially that you spend your days and nights, combing over digg, making sure you get your two cents in to those who post comments to the site that don't meet your intellectual standards, or contribute to some avenue of discussion?
sounds like you need to get out of the house a bit, douchebag. -
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