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Entries grouped under the color thread.

Archive No. 016

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Showing 16 entriesfiltered by Color

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Apr 16, 2026
2 min read

Color Piano, Reintroduced

Music theory for visual learners.

Apr 28, 2012
1 min read

Color Picker

The latest rendition of the Color Picker “Classic”, themed after Photoshop, GIMP, and other image editors, there are no frills here, it’s a basic Hue, Saturation, Luminance, and Alpha (HSVA) color selector. It works in b...

Dec 28, 2011
3 min read

Color Piano 2.0

Learn how to play piano songs by watching notes fall towards the keyboard as color blocks; similar to how Guitar Hero works, but with a real instrument. Color piano Theory (CPT) ties together chords, scales, inversions,...

Nov 15, 2011
1 min read

Color Sphere

Color Sphere was one of my 1st HTML5 projects, way back in 2007. Well, the years passed, browsers sped up, my hair grew longer, and nothing changed on Color Sphere… but the time has come! The latest rendition is bigger (...

Oct 22, 2011
3 min read

ColRD: Gradient Creator

Tonight, on ColRD, we released the latest rendition of Palette Creator, along with our newest addition; the Gradient Creator! This new webapp makes it fun and easy to create CSS3 linear gradients . UPDATE: You can also d...

Oct 20, 2011
2 min read

Color Accessibility in the Browser

Announcing the release of color blindness daltonization + simulation bookmarklets; daltonize.appspot.com The Chrome Daltonize extension is faster in many cases, and uses less bandwidth than the bookmarklet, highly recomm...

Oct 8, 2011
1 min read

Background Generator

I worked on a future release of BG a few months back, and am excited to share some screenshots! It’s exciting to be able to produce wallpapers for my Desktop in my Browser . Since creating these images, I’ve found that b...

Aug 17, 2011
1 min read

ColRD: Website

ColRD is a new website to help you find Colors, Palettes, Gradients and Patterns. It was developed by Daniel Christopher, of LucentPDX, and myself. The best place to get started is the Discover page. There you can narrow...

Aug 1, 2011
1 min read

ColRD: Color Extractor

UPDATE: Renamed to Image DNA and released as a Chrome Extension, read more. I spent last weekend working on a color palette extractor in HTML5. These examples illustrate automatically picked 7 color and the 90 color pale...

Apr 15, 2011
2 min read

global Composite Operation

The standard chart (a great resource provided by Mozilla) describing the effects of the globalCompositeOperation is incomplete, as it leaves us to extrapolate how 99% of the color spectrum, and multiple levels of opacity...

Jan 19, 2011
4 min read

Color Piano v1

UPDATE: There is a more recent post on Color Piano. Color Piano Theory (CPT) was inspired by an interest in building an educational application that utilizes colors in teaching piano theory . CPT ties together chords, sc...

Aug 7, 2010
2 min read

What can 1kb of Javascript do?

JS1k is challenge presented by Peter van der Zee to design the most creative use out of 1kb of Javascript. Many beautiful demos have been added in the first few days: mr. doob, hyperandroid, and antimatter. The challenge...

Mar 15, 2007
1 min read

Sphere Plugin

I’ve prepared a new DHTML plugin, licencened under Creative Commons. It works perfectly on all Macintosh browsers, however, I haven’t had the opportunity to test on Windows… If there are bugs there, it would be great if...

Feb 24, 2007
1 min read

ColorJack: Sphere

Ever wonder what a computer programmer does while on vacation? The same thing we do every night. Check out the newest release from ColorJack Labs (developed in Mexico). Sphere allows you to visualize the theory behind co...

Feb 3, 2007
1 min read

Sphere Widget

Do you like ColorJack Sphere? Want it on your desktop? Download the widget for Apple’s Dashboard!

Nov 20, 2006
1 min read

DHTML Color Picker

I finally got all the ColorJack code into a little widget for your websites! It’s surprisingly small… the entire package weighs in at only 24.5k :) To give you an idea for comparison, it’s nearest competitor is 72.3k. Fe...