RGB Color Schemer FAQs
By Stephen Bucaro
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Q What is RGB Color Schemer?
It's a quick way to design a color scheme for your Web page or for other Web graphics.
Q What does "RGB" mean?
It stands for Red, Green, Blue. Whereas traditional artists use a color system
that uses Red, Yellow, and Blue as primary colors, computer displays build up
color by adding different amounts of the colors Red, Green, and Blue.
All color systems use the same basic principles to define complimentary and
harmonious colors, so it doesn't matter which color system you use. It's just
easier to use the RGB color system when designing for the computer display.
Q Where's the color wheel?
A color scheme is usually created by selecting colors from a color wheel. I
programmed an algorithm to generate the spectrum of colors for the RGB Color
Schemer. It's too complicated to generate the spectrum of colors in the shape of
a color wheel, so I display it as a strip.
Try to visualize the color strip as running around the circumference of a
circle. The left end of the strip is 0 degrees and the right end of the strip is
359 degrees. As an example, if you pick the color one-fourth the way into the
strip, that would be 90 degrees, and its complimentary color would be three-
fourths the way into the strip, or 270 degrees.
Now, to make things more complicated, in order to fit the strip within the
structure of my webpage, I broke the strip into two segments.
Q Are the colors in the strip correct?
No. I used my own custom algorithm to generate a spectrum of colors with
more intense colors. A scientifically correct spectrum would contain many dull
colors. I think you'll like my custom spectrum.
Q What are those funny numbers in the color boxes?
That is the hexadecimal notation for the color in the box. You can use those
notations to define the color values in your design. You can select and copy the
hexadecimal notations the same as you would any other text.
Q How do I create a color scheme?
Click on a color in the color strip to display the base color in the first box.
Click on a scheme button to display the other color(s) for that scheme in
another box(es). For example, if you click on a color and then click on the
[Complimentary Color] button, a second box will appear displaying the color 180
degrees from the color you clicked on.
If you don't click on a color in the color strip first before selecting a
color scheme, the color red (#ff0000) will be selected as the default base color.
By clicking on each color scheme button, you can display all the different color
schemes related to the base color that you selected. To reset and pick another
base color, just click on a color in the color strip.
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