After Centuries of Trying, We've yet to Arrive at a Perfect Way to Map Color, video from Science Clic
Handprint,com section on color theory is one of the most extensive presentations of technical information about color theory on the web
Odili Donald Odita, Whitescapes on The Art Assignment - 10 minute video
A short documentary about Josef Albers, his painting and his teaching, from Zwirner Gallery
A well-designed short about color and emotional associations from design firm Oddfellows.
A gorgeous short video about hand-made pastel maker Henri Roche/La Maison du Pastel and their painstaking process of making new colors
A color game that you can play and pretend you are doing homework for this class: http://i-love-hue.com/
(Actually, besides being a very chill game, it is probably also valuable as a skill-builder in perceiving and predicting the way that colors appear to change based on context.)
Color Code: an information visualization of the "color" of words in the english language based on image search: http://www.bewitched.com/live/colorcode/index.html
Want to really geek out about the math behind digital color spaces? Bartosz Ciechanowski has you covered with this exhaustive and well illustrated explainer
NYT Article: Recent research indicates that for most people, similar colors trigger similar brain responses.
Watching ink being made - for the sheer dumb beauty of the colors: https://digg.com/video/how-ink-is-made
A fast-paced roundup of great color use in film, from Cinefix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tILIeNjbH1E
A short video about developing a color script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=9liKyUnfNO0&feature=emb_title
Letter of Reccomendation: Color Blind Pal: A lovely short Essay by Zoe Dubno about color blindness
Datawrapper: A good concise discussion of how to make smart color choices in data visualization
Seeing Color with Zhiwan Cheung - an interview podcast with artists of color, hosted by a CMU grad
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours - A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook.
An interesting example of how information can be extrapolated from color. Article In New York Times: The True Colors of America are Grey and Green
A short review of the book Safety Orange by Anna Watkins Fisher. Review by Emily Watlington
A good short article about the use of color in Cartography From Morphocode
Lighten Up by Ronald Wimberly A cartoonist reflects on the subtle racism of shifting skin tones in a Marvel comic.
Other Web Resources:
Adobe Color - Generate color schemes, extract colors or gradients from images
Chroma.js Color Palette Helper - very helpful in generating multi-hue, multi-stop color scales.
Colrd - generate palettes and gradients
Color Explorer - Generate palettes from images, websites, etc. analyze and match colors
coolors - Generate color schemes.
Paletton - Color palette generator
ColoRotate - palette generator and color extraction within a 3-D visualization of color space
scale - Color scale generator.
Tin Eye - extract colors from an image
Colorslike.me - extract colors from an image
Colorhunter - extract colors from an image
DeGraeve - extract colors from an image
Image to Color Palette Generator - allows you to generate a color palette based upon an input image.
Pigment - Like a color moodboard.
Poline - an unusual linear palette color generator. More limited than others, but simple & intuitive.
Rampen Sau - a fast & effective color scale generator
0to255 - For lightening / darkening colors.
Colourco.de - Pick colours based on hsl.
Gradient Image Generator - Creates CSS3 Codes and PNG Images
Contrast Checker - Make sure your foreground/background colors are accessible.
Calcolor - Calculate colors. Share palettes.
Multicolr - Search images by color.
Image Color Summarizer - RGB, HSV, LCH & Lab image color statistics and clustering
Coolhue - Nice gradients.
ColorZilla - Advanced color tools, including an extension.
WebGradients - A free collection of 180 linear gradients.
Color Scales - Find tints, tones and shades of a color based on human perception.
Colorable - Color palette combination contrast tester, for node.js
Pixel Chart - distributes pixels from any image
Professor Merrell's website: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cmerrell/