Colour Online
Welcome to my Colour Online link pages, a listing of about five hundred colour-related links that are free to the general public. This collection began around 2007 as a rarely visited page on my teaching website on which I would record interesting links as I came across them, mainly for my own benefit and to be able to find them again quickly for students. I've recently done some work organizing and expanding the list as part of my contribution to the Colour Literacy Project, an international educational initiative jointly undertaken by the Inter-Society Color Council and the International Colour Association to provide age-appropriate colour curricula and state-of-the-art resources for teachers across science, art and industry. Every effort has been made to select sound information from the mass of disinformation about colour on the internet, but some allowance has to be made for that fact that very few resources on colour aimed at a general audience are completely free from misconceptions.
I'm still adding entries, annotations and images, but if you know of any important additional links reflecting a modern understanding of colour and likely to interest artists and designers please send me your suggestions using the form at the bottom of the page. (No red-yellow-blue, primary-secondary-tertiary "colour theory" thank you, except for the historical section!). This website complements my other outreach website, The Dimensions of Colour, an account of the dimensions of colour and light perception, written for painters using either traditional or digital media, also begun in 2007.
David Briggs,
May 2020
Glossaries
What is a Colour?
Attributes of Perceived Colour
Hue, Lightness and Chroma
Hue and Blackness/Whiteness/Chromaticness
2 The Physical Basis of Colour
Some Definitions
Websites and Videos
Online and Downloadable Programs
Anatomy and Physiology of Colour Vision
Phenomena of Colour Perception
Interactive Programs
Websites
Apps
5 Colorants and Colorant Mixing
Pigments and Paints
Subtractive Mixing Theory
Paint Mixing
Overviews
CIE Colorimetry
Munsell System
Natural Colour System (NCS)
Digital Colour Specification and Spaces
Other Systems
Interactive Online and Downloadable Programs
Websites
Colour and Light in Representational Painting
Colour in Architecture
Colour in Cinema
Colour Scheme Generators
Overviews
Colour Naming
Colour Symbolism
Historical Texts Online (selected)
Archives and Anthologies of Historical Texts on Colour
History of Theories of Colour
History of Applied Colour
History of Colour Education
Textbooks on Colour
Outreach Websites
Glossaries
Blogs
Forums
Link Pages
Archives of Scientific Papers
Videos
Colour Associations