Use this simple java applet to compare html colours quickly and
easily. Excellent for designing web pages, as you can set the
foreground and background colors to your tastes, and then read
their hexadecimal "color code" values, which are used in HTML.
You can contrast different sizes of text and/or a big colored
area against the background colour. Note that the colours shown
are java's interpretation of the colour value. HTML sometimes
shows them a teeny tiny bit differently. I have chosen a non-
descript gray colour for the background of this page, so that
your eye may experience the colours you choose with a 'clean
palette', as it were. As a note of interest, on page 13 of IBM's
G40 Monitor Handbook, If you bookmark this page, you can come
back and use this powerful tool any time you feel like. If you
wonder why I consistently spell color/colour as color or colour,
it is because I don't trust the search engines to find you one
if you search for the other. This way, I look like an illiterate
slob, but the sea