Color Theory Resources & Bibloigraphy

Color Theory Links & Tutorials
XPLANE - the visual thinking company
Creative Pro—Learning to Use Color on Your Web Site
Microsoft—Wheel of Color
Colorsystem.com—History & Sciences
The Philosophy of Color
Color, Contrast & Dimension
Color Matters
About.com—Understanding Colour

Herman Miller knowledge base article
Herman Miller—Experience of Color (PDF file: 717k)

Adobe
Adobe on Color (PDF file: 320k)

Color Mentors
Colorsystem.com—Albert Henry Munsell
Johannes Itten & the Bauhaus
Bauhaus Museum on Itten
Johannes Itten by Froebel Web
Johannes Itten at the artists.org
The Bauhaus by Chris Snider
Albers at the artists.org
The Fauves by National Gallery of Art

Color Combination Tools
ColorMatch 5K
EasyRGB
Color Schemer Online
Color Calculator
Color Scheme Generator 2 [EN]
Mundi Palette Chooser
Color Palette Picker - Web Safe Colors
The Colour Wizard
The Palette Man
IDEO Web Color VisualizerSoftware

Software for purchase
Color Wheel Pro (trial version available)
Color Impact (trial version available)
ColorPerfect (trial version available)

Software for architecture/interior design use
Virtual Decorator Xpert
CBN Selector Color Visualization Tool

Color Tools
Check to see how a site appears to someone with a color deficit at Vischeck

Bibliography
Albers, Josef, Interaction of Color, New Haven, Yale Universtiy Press, 1963.
Birren, Faber, Color Psychology and Color Therapy, First Edition, New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950.
Birren, Faber, Light, Color, and Environment, Chicago, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1969.
Bothwell, Dorr, Notan: The light-dark principle of design, New York, Reinhold Book Corporation, 1968.
Kueppers, Harald, The Basic Law of Color Theory, New York, Barron’s, 1982.
Mahnke, Frank, Color, Environment, and Human Response, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Detroit, 1996.
Miller, Mary C, Color in Interior Architecture, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1997.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Matisse, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1994.
Norman, Richard B., Electronic Color, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. 1990.
Pile, John F., Interior Design, New York, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1988.
Pile, John, Color in Interior Design, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997.
Sharpe, Deborah, The Psychology of Color and Design, Chicago, Nelson-Hall, 1975.
Swirnoff, Lois, Dimensional Color, Birkhauser, Boston, 1989.