Color Wheel for Web Designers

Don't tell me you have no artistic sense.
Here's a color theory: 1 you have incredibly advanced taste
because 2 you know immediately when you see great color.
And 3 the best start to finding great color is seeing all the options.
So I lay these color wheels reverently at the feet of your intuition.
She is fickle and shy. But we will honor and attend her.
And she will take our breath away.

(I wrote an article expanding on this nutty idea for DigitalWeb Magazine,
titled the Red Queen Color Theory.)

Color Scheme LAB
(FREE)
Very popular, over
5000 visitors a week

Color Wheel
POSTER

(18x24 US$15)

Online Color Chart

(FREE)

Color CARD

(8.5x11 laminted US$10)

Color CHART

(18x24 US$15)

Color blindness
reference in the
Color CARD and
Color CHART

Square Mouse PAD

(US$15)

Color Code
DesktopPopup

(FREE)

SWATCH Libraries

(FREE)
Already included with Adobe^®
Illustrator^® and Photoshop^®,
and Bare Bones BBEdit.
Downloads available here
for Jasc Paint Shop Pro^®,
Allaire HomeSite^®, Macromedia
Fireworks^®, and several other
web design tools.

HEXAGON
Mouse Pad

(US$15)

The printed color references use a custom 8-color printing process
to match screen color. I think you'll find it stunningly more
accurate than Pantone^® ColorWeb^®.

The color lab is by far the most popular resource here.
Each click on the color wheel on the left chooses a color;
each new color updates the color scheme.
Show your intuition hundreds of color combinations in a few minutes.
I do hope she's pleased.

And when you fall in love with your next great color scheme,
I'll be honored to have helped in the matchmaking.
Send a postcard.
— Bob Stein