Pages

Sunday, March 25

CYMK HTML Palette

Takes a moment to load because it's a little under 78 Kb of pure style-pounding HTML code generated from Excel spreadsheets built for this express purpose.

As much as I enjoy Photoshop/E9, working with the color dialog is an unsatisfying hassle due to its narrow confines.

Advantages of this HTML palette over an image or what's available in PSE (and Windows) for choosing colors are the greatly expanded range at a glance, and the utility of double clicking on the desired six-digit hex codes for a quick cut and paste into the Photoshop dialog box.

There are fewer duplicates in this 31 by 31 HTML table than you might initially expect. They occur only at the furthest left and right edges and once again within each of those columns from cyan (00AEEF) to magenta (EC008C) and back again. Even if you can't see them you can read 915 unique colors.

Of course opening up a screen shot without the codes within Photoshop, and then using its "eyedropper" is the most efficient way to choose from the broad selection. 

The effort of building spreadsheets obtains a very useful and highly engaging—for me—facility to create as many spectrally localized versions required or desired. This chart was compiled from four different "invocations" of the spreadsheet's over five and a half megabytes (and growing - some projects never end) of string manipulation. Stay tuned.

No comments: