Tag: red

Red is a primary color, indivisible by no other. It can be created in art using a variety of pigments: napthol, pyrrole, cadmium, quinacridone. See my list of color names for many shades of red. Below are photographs of red objects and posts about the color.

Color sliders and more fun with JavaScript

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More fun with JavaScript! I made a color sliders page by connecting my revised color thesaurus to a new improved interactive hex to rgb converter. You can still see all the details of the colors, such as names, hue, saturation, brightness, red green blue values, hexadecimal code, and little stories about the colors, but the interface is all new and the code is cleaner. I removed jQuery from the JavaScript to speed up page performance, added custom sliders rather than an off-the-shelf color picker, and improved the data/definitions. I still need to test it on Internet Explorer. I may retire the original color picker once I do that.


hex and rgb color sliders

Color pickers and fun with JavaScript

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I made a color picker with names by hooking up my color thesaurus to an interactive hex to rgb converter. Now you can see all the details of the colors, such as names, hue, saturation, brightness, red green blue values, hexadecimal code, little stories about the colors, and more. Let me know what else you’d like to see on this page. I’m a little obsessed with colors due to writing a novel with an artist as the main character. I also like keeping my website up to date. You can add any color to the URL and my code generates a page behind the scenes. It pulls the data from a JSON file filled with color names and hex codes.


hex and rgb color picker

Color names for writers

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I have made a collection of named colors gleaned from HTML color names, Pantone swatches, stones, jewels, flowers, foods, minerals, pigments, and paints. Some of them I made up out of whole cloth. Each color is presented as its hexadecimal code. Use some in your fiction! Sample color names:

  • Gamboge
  • Despair
  • Malachite
  • Flesh of the peach
  • Skin of the peach
  • Wine
  • Mahogany

You can use the complete interactive version here.

Download the whole shebang as a PNG file. Please share it! Below is a cropped bit from the reds section.

excerpt of color names for writers

Primary colors painting

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Surrealist landscape in primary colors

This is the most popular image on my site, according to Google Search. It uses primary colors: red, yellow, blue (as well as black and white). Primary colors are a set of colors from which all other colors may be derived. In art, red, yellow and blue paint can be mixed to produce all hues. In light, red, green and blue wavelengths combine to form all hues. In inkjet printers, it’s magenta, yellow, and cyan.

I made this painting with oils as an exercise for class. The painting is about 2×2 feet on stretched canvas. See more surreal landscapes.

 

primary colors painting