#26030
Hexadecimal Color Codes in HTML That Look or Sound Dirty, But Are in Fact Merely Colorful
It's just like how you can make your calculator spell BOOBS, although people inexperienced with HTML probably won't appreciate it.
Genusa, Angela. McSweeney's Internet Tendency (2004). Humor>Web Design>HTML>Color
#22531
A Horse of a Different Color is Fine--Just be Accurate!
As much as the hardware and software manufacturers in the digital imaging world would like you to think that buying a digital camera and a photo quality printer will make you Ansel Adams, those of us that earn our living as pixel jockeys battle with color management in one way or another every day. Depending on your workflow and the final destination of your images, there are a number of ways to keep your colors accurate.
Dorgay, Jeff. Digital Output (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Prepress>Color
#25888
Getting that just-right color is part art, part science. We'll show you.
Before and After. Design>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric>Color
#25750
These out-there colors won't come alone, or even in pairs... they'll be seen in packs. Designers, desperately searching for something fresh and new, will go balls out, applying this palette to tripped out patterns of stripes, polka dots, and plaids to create looks similar to those seen on the streets of Tokyo.
Polselli, Adam. AdamPolselli.com (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Web Design>Color
#10241
Illegal colors are those colors which you can pick on your computer that will not reproduce using traditional CMYK offset printing. For example, open the Apple color wheel. Set the brightness as high as it can be and click on the aqua color at nine o'clock on the wheel. You see that bright, glowy, neon-like color? Isn't it beautiful? Too bad, it's illegal. There is no way that ordinary CMYK inks can reproduce that color. Most people get into illegal color trouble when they pick a color that looks great on the screen, and then have the job printed using process colors. They then complain to the print shop that the job looks dull, that all the brightness is gone. That's the fault of picking illegal colors. You won't get arrested but you will be disappointed in the output. The following is a list of some of the popular desktop publishing program and how they handle illegal colors.
Cohen, Sandee. Design, Typography and Graphics. Design>Graphic Design>Document Design>Color
#22530
#21881
Adobe® PostScript 3 printing systems offer a variety of new features for better, faster, Web-savvy printing. Here's an overview of what they are and how they're likely to affect you.
Nordling, Tamis and Wendy Katz. Adobe Magazine (1997). Articles>Document Design>Prepress>Color
#21535
Legal Color Names in HTML 4 and XHTML
There are sixteen (16) legal color names for use in HTML 4.x and XHTML. Any other color name is a browser-specific name and cannot be used in conforming HTML 4.x and XHTML documents.
#23515
It seems that Jakob Nielsen is back grinding on one of his old organs with the current AlertBox and the tune is 'standard link colors improve usability'. No one can blame Jakob for recycling old material. My goodness, he has been publishing a weekly column for almost 10 years, things are bound to come around again and again.
Anderson, David J. UIdesign (2004). Design>Web Design>Usability>Color
#31908
Lists of links are an intermediate case between content-embedded links and menu items. Showing listed links in blue or in the site's main link color is the recommended design — and the one most intranets follow.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (2008). Articles>Web Design>Usability>Color
#25890
Mastering Image Exposure Corrections in Photoshop
It's very important to always do your exposure corrections in Photoshop first, before any other corrections or effects. If you don’t, you’ll find that correcting exposure is extremely hard (if not impossible) to do.
Milburn, Ken. Graphics.com (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Prepress>Color
#21393
Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design
The web is awash with sterile design solutions. IBM, Dell, Microsoft, and countless others are virtually indistinguishable from each other. Though one might say this makes browsing easier by virtue of a standardized interface, in reality such sites create mundane experiences for their users and fail to make a positive connection with their audience.
Wroblewski, Luke. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
#21402
Northern Colorado Technical Writers Group
NCTWG is a resource for Technical Writers in northern Colorado. Membership is open to all technical writers. STC membership is not required. Meetings are held monthly and begin with an hour of socializing and networking, followed by a guest lecture or round-table discussion.
#25909
You'll probably recognize this color effect used by a certain department store that plays on the colors in its logo. The effect essentially reduces the image to three colors--a white background, red image content, and a darker red for some depth; but you can choose any color combination or mix any number of colors for a solarized or false color effect.
Hodgetts, Philip. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Multimedia>Video>Color
#26510
The Pantone Matching System: Always Show Your True Colours
It can be very frustrating to see the logo you worked hard to create look deep blue on the client's letterhead, blue-greenish on his business card, and light blue on his very expensive envelopes. A way to prevent this is by using a standardized color matching system, such as the Pantone Matching System.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Color
#22550
Personalized Color Communications
Four firms discuss the benefits of color variable data printing, such as creating marketing campaigns and experiencing up to a 40 percent rate of return.
Miley, Michael. PennWell (2004). Design>Publishing>Prepress>Color
#14857
An interactive overview of design, color theory, composition and layout, perspective and typography.
Mundi, Andrew. Mundi Graphic Design (2001). Design>Graphic Design>Typography>Color
#23405
Problems with Colors - and the Solution: Color Management
The profession of the technical editor is rapidly changing, from the pure text manufacturer to a data manager, which leads inevitably to intensive occupation with the production of the final product: the technical documentation on paper or online. The color matching reproduction on the local screen or printer plays a new, important role. Particularly since the meaning of color in documents increases rapidly.
Thiele, Ulrich. TC-FORUM (2000). Articles>Document Design>Prepress>Color
#25652
Progress and Trends in Ink-jet Printing Technology
This paper provides a brief review of the various paths undertaken in the development of ink-jet printing. Highlights of recent progress and trends in this technology are discussed. The technologies embedded in the latest ink-jet products from current industry leaders in both thermal and piezoelectric drop-on-demand ink-jet methods are also described. Finally, this article presents a list of the potential ink-jet technology applications that have emerged in the past few years.
Le, Hue P. Society for Imaging Science and Technology, The (1998). Articles>Publishing>Technical Illustration>Color
#10547
The search for compelling color is a struggle. As in fashion, success at one time and place is no help at any other.
Stein, Bob. Digital Web Magazine (2001). Design>Graphic Design>User Interface>Color
#24858
Resources for Teaching and Working with the Visual Aspects of Texts
An online guide that explains color theory and shows how to use it in design through examples and exercises.
Poynter Institute, The (2001). Articles>Education>Visual Rhetoric>Color
#22953
Safe Web Colours For Colour-Deficient Vision
Colour is increasingly used these days to help convey information. When one in twelve men have some measurable degree of colour vision deficiency, the use of certain colours in certain ways can cause difficulty when navigating web pages or software, and even total illegibility in some cases. The key issue is to know when you are using colours which some people will not be able to differentiate - because that (for them) removes the benefit of using colour for visual cues. Colour scientists have long known which colours are confused by colour blind people, but this tends to be expressed in a way difficult for designers to utilise.
BT Group (2004). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Color
#21959
An in-depth guide to working with spot colors in Photoshop.
Amladi, Rita and Erik Gibson. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Color
#28592
It's not hard to persuade a designer that color matters. But persuading Fortune 500 companies? You might be surprised. Color consultant Leatrice Eiseman has carved out a major career in helping companies 'make correct choices in colors that sell.'
Eiseman, Leatrice. Design, Typography and Graphics (2006). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design>Color
#22524
Soft-Proofing and Printing with Profiles
Many photographers today print directly from Photoshop to photo-quality inkjet printers or send images to a lab to have enlargements made on LightJets, Lambdas, or the Fuji Pictography and Frontier systems. All of these devices are capable of stunning, photo-realistic output. However, if you do not employ color management effectively the output from these devices will not match the image you saw on your monitor. At best, you will waste some time, ink and paper making reprints. At worst, if you are sending images to a lab, proofs and reprints to get the image correct can become costly.
Hagadorn, Matt. Nature Photography (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Prepress>Color
