Visual Color Design

Many efforts from both artists and scientists on color design have resulted in a variety of models and rules devoted to coloring graphics. Based on these results, a lot of interactive tools are now available to help with color design based on various sorts of color themes, templates, palettes, swatches, brushes, etc. However, despite the numbers of tools and results available, in many situations, color design is still tedious and time consuming for both amateurs and professionals. In this paper, we introduce visual color design as a new approach to handling coloring problems interactively. The coloring of web documents is used to illustrate our approach with a real case study. The case study takes as input (1) a given color image and (2) an HTML/CSS document to be colored.