Colormatcher

About this program

This program will help you to find six matching colors for your website or any other designing task. Just choose or enter the first color and the program will find six matching colors for you.

Most of the code is taken from http://www.knorrpage.de/colormatch.html. Knorrpage say that the thing originates to http://www.intravenous.dk/colour/, a page that does not seem to exist any longer. Anyway the code was Javascipt and I ported it to Java without really understanding how it works. Java sources are included within the jar-file.

Howto

This is a very simple little program. As you can see, six matching colors for the basic color CC6600 are shown.

Pressing Set you set the RGB-color in the input-field as the base for the calculation of the six matching colors. Choose openes a color chooser and lets you choose the base color. New onenes a new window, and Clipboard creates an image with theses colors and copies it to the system clipboard. Please not that the clipbord and the context menu functionalities are not available when the program runs at applet.

Licence and Copyright

The software is copyrigth of Hans Joachim Herbertz provided under the terms of the Lesser General Public License (GNU). A copy of the licence is included with the distribution.

Run the program

The program requires a Java Runtime Environment (Java VM) Version 1.4 or better. Please download from http://java.sun.com/.

• You may download an executable JAR – file here.

• Launch the program using Java Web Start.

• Open the applet page.