License: GPL
No longer having an excuse for not creating my web site (researched a ISP, check; set up machine, check; ran through other items on the to do list; check), I natually had had to create new ones. Thus I embarked on a long process of educating myself about colour theory. It was an interesting journey. I had never understood the horse shoe shaped chart the used for colour calibrations; I have a lot to learn. And all the theory in the world does not make it easier for me to select a color scheme that does not suck.
The pages I ran into fell into four categories; those that talked about Color Theory and Physics, a very scant few that dealt with design, lots of practical web page construction sites that went into detail about color schemes and tutorials, and a bunch of math stuff. Hopefully these shall be useful to someone.
The grand culmination of all this research was a perl script that takes a color in hex notation, and generates a color report — for example. here is a report for #DEE3FF, which is the basis for one of the themes for this page. Of course, the generated page, though very nice in telling me how I can create a color scheme based on my initial choice of a basis color, did not actually help – since the colors initially selected clashed wildly with the graphic at the top. I had to scrap the initial choices and start over, though having the program made the process less painful than it would have been.
I need to polish up the perl script, and flesh out the descriptions of the links it creates, and perhaps add more command line options, or stuff. bling-bling is always important, especially for code.