I was helping Raul out with a CSS issue tonight and pointed him toward a colour picker that I’ve used a number of times for my own projects.

The tool features the full range of hex-code colours but breaks them down into three categories:

• Web-Safe – The 256 “safe” web colours
• Web-Smart – An extended range of colours for most browsers
• Unsafe – The remaining colours which will work fine for applications, but aren’t necessarily suitable to the web.

The colour picker itself is a nice basic version based on DHTML and a images. I like this because it makes the tool accessible to more platforms by not requiring Flash or Silverlight or some other complexity that simply isn’t required.

As an added bonus, there’s a downloadable version of the colour picker, which again just consists of the one HTML page, and the PNG graphic which shows the colour wheel.  This is a great addition.  (Note: some browsers don’t like you to use offline javascript, so you may need to approve the offline version from a warning bar.)

The page is hosted by AllScoop Technology and I have to admit, until tonight I never bothered to look at the rest of the site.

As it turns out they’ve got a ton of great resources so don’t be surprised to see more of their stuff featured here, or on the AGP in the future.

If you need to use a colour picker, go check this one out.