color
background
Load a color palette


CSS color and background-color

: is the font color.
: is the backgroundColor.

The css style declarations are
color: ;
background-color: ;

Select colors with the picker

This color picker is designed to visually hilight the contrast between the font 'color' and 'background color'.

The color picker consists of two dynamically coordinated select options lists. If you pick a font 'color' then the font 'color' in the background options will change. If you pick background color then background color will change in the 'color' options. Trying it out, you will soon see how easy it is to pick pleasing color contrasts.

Pick a color palette

The top right 'Load a color palette' gives you 4 radio options which will load these options into the select lists on the right

  1. 15 predefined; This is the default, and gives you the basic 15 named color palette as stipulated in the w3c html4 recomendation.
  2. 140 named; These are the 140 netscape named colors. These colors are cross browser in that the names are recognsed in Internet Explorer and Netscape
  3. 216 non-dithering; These are the 216 non dithering color which gives you the widist possible choice.
  4. User preferences; These are the system user preferences palette as outlined in the w3c css2 recomendation. They are based on the client machines user preference for things like 'button face'.