Color Number Calculator

Use this simple java applet to compare html colours quickly and easily. Excellent for designing web pages, as you can set the foreground and background colors to your tastes, and then read their hexadecimal "color code" values, which are used in HTML. You can contrast different sizes of text and/or a big colored area against the background colour.

Note that the colours shown are java's interpretation of the colour value. HTML sometimes shows them a teeny tiny bit differently.

I have chosen a non-descript gray colour for the background of this page, so that your eye may experience the colours you choose with a 'clean palette', as it were.

As a note of interest, on page 13 of IBM's G40 Monitor Handbook, 'IBM recommends that the use of primary colour blue on a dark background be avoided. It is difficult to see and may cause eyestrain due to insufficient contrast.' Many feel that red on a dark background has a similar effect. Use this applet to find combinations of colours that are cool to look at, while being easy to read.

If you bookmark this page, you can come back and use this powerful tool any time you feel like.

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