Color Palette Generator and Optimization Tool

512-FOUND: Color Palette Generator, Analyzer, Tester and Color Optimization Tool

About this Color Generator

512-FOUND is a palette generator, analyzer, color tester and optimization tool for professional and inexperienced users.

• Still guessing fore/background colors?
• Why force color rendering with "gif tricks"?
• Stop the color nightmare with 512-FOUND.

Using the Palette

To use our color optimization tool

1. Enter two hexadecimal values, HEX 1 and HEX 2 or use default values.
2. Click "GET". In few seconds your customized palette will be generated.
3. Click "RESET" to reset 512-FOUND
4. Mouseover a color to read its value in alternate notations.

512-FOUND supports several color notations. For instance, mousing over the ff9900 color gives

1. Hexadecimal, HEX: ff9900
2. Triplet hex, short: f90
3. Red-Green-Blue, RGB: 255-153-0
4. Normalized RGB, %rgb: 100-60-0

No more hard-to-remember color calculations! Not sure which colors cannot be declared in shorthand notation? Relax. 512-FOUND displays "short: ---", for such colors. Need a handy color reference? Print or paste a generated palette in your favorite document or web page.

System Requirements

To use our palette generator you need the latest version of

1. Browser: Internet Explorer or Netscape
2. Operating System: Windows XP, ME, 98
3. Language: JavaScript

Who Should use this Tool

Our color optimization tool can be used by

1. teachers, students,... anyone.
2. website optimizers, web designers or software developers.
3. color professionals, painters, interior decorators or graphic artists.
4. developers interested in replacing non standard colors with safe colors.
5. users interested in replacing name colors with color values.

Possible Applications

512-FOUND can be used for

1. building a library of customized color palettes.
2. studying color rendering on the Web.
3. replacing name colors with color values.
4. matching foreground and background colors.
5. replacing non standard colors with "Web-safe" colors.
6. identifying non standard "safe" colors.
7. to find "safe" colors; colors that are consistently rendered across user's systems and settings.
8. as a website colorization and color optimization tool.

Generated Palettes

Our tool generates palettes consisting of

1. a set of 256 standard colors containing 216 safe colors.
2. a set of 256 non standard colors, which may contain safe colors.

Thus a total of 512 candidate colors can be found. These colors are obtained by combining the so-called "standard hex pairs", i.e., the 00, 33, 66, 99, ff, and cc hexadecimal pairs, with two user-defined hexadecimal values, HEX 1 and HEX 2. Hex values must be limited to two characters and should consist of combinations of numbers (from 0 to 9), letters (from a to f) or combinations of these. Try with

1. HEX 1 = c0 and HEX 2 = 80 (default values)
2. HEX 1 = aa and HEX 2 = 88
3. HEX 1 = a8 and HEX 2 = b7
4. HEX 1 = ee and HEX 2 = 1b

Before using 512-FOUND please keep in mind that

1. setting HEX 1 = HEX 2 or setting either one to a standard hex pair produces a palette with duplicated colors
2. a palette containing the so-called "VGA safe colors" is obtained with the default values.
3. "safe" is a relative term. What is safe for you may not be safe for others.

Really Safe Palette

According to Razorfish's David Lehn and Hadly Stern, a really safe palette consists of 22 colors, only (1, 2). These are given in the following table.

Really Safe Colors

#fff

#ff6

#f33

#ff0

#cf6

#6ff

#6f3

#6f0

#3ff

#3fc

#3f6

#3f3

#0ff

#0fc

#0f6

#0f0

#f0f

#f03

#f00

#00f

#003

#000

References

1. David Lehn and Hadly Stern
2. The Really Safe Palette

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