The Authority on Web Color

Visibone demystifies the job of web color coordinations.

Brunswick, ME - Visibone, a website and publishing company operated by Bob Stein offers the authorative definition of web site color planning.

Visibone's posters, charts, "cheat sheet" style fold-out reference cards, and related color specification products are not only well thought out, and chock full of useful information, but also do double duty as office art.

From a few feet away, the Visibone poster looks like a richly colored graphic art poster, but step forward a bit and you'll see that the design has been carefully calculated by Stein to offer the fullest range of safe color combinations and present them in a way that web developers and graphic artists can work with.

While the layouts may look abstract, (Stein could have presented the information in a spread-sheet like columnar format), but the effect is such that you can pick colors that are complimentary, contrasting or otherwise related to each other.

Stein's charts give the cryptic #000000 to #FFFFFF RGB color values real names. The pallete of 216 web safe colors have been grouped into categories and based on a sub-set of the millions of colors you could choose using arbitrary RGB or CYMK colors.

Where a color like #000000 and #040404 are mathematically different and would produce different colors in 16 million color mode, under 256 color mode, the appear the same on most web browsers.