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The Multi-Colored Text Research Site

Last updated: October 1997

This site offers 216 pages of 16k each, each page offering a different 'browser-safe' background color along with 216 samples of text in each foreground color. My purpose is to encourage text-hackers to experiment with the expressive value of new color combinations.

A simple six-direction navigation scheme allows one to move easily between pages by a minimal increment of the red, green, or blue component.

While the text-samples, at this point, are quite boring, I'd like to encourage colored-text enthusiasts to submit new samples for particular combinations of foreground/background, or links to pages that use that combination. I will try to add these in at the proper spots.

Poems or single words or whatever are welcome, within reason.

[Menu of starting colors]

[Another site with a multicolored hypertext experiment]

Blue Axis: Full Palette
Text Samples for the 216 Non-Dithering Colors (225k?)
Test WebTV: Color Test Index
Color Names
WebWorks - Color Selection
Citapei Communications - HTML Color Chart (Text)
WebSoc HTML Primer: Colours
Kory's Palette Book: 216 Non-Dithering Backgrounds with 216 Text Colors
Microsoft approach

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Robot Wisdom Pages include far more text than anyone could be expected to read online, so within the next few months we hope to offer most of it in a $20 hardcopy edition-- some two megabytes of text in a 240-page, large-size format, divided four ways between James Joyce, artificial intelligence, internet culture/ hypertext design, and miscellaneous topics. If you'd like to be informed by email when this becomes available, please send me email with the words 'hardcopy list' as the subject or in the body. [More on the hardcopy edition]
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