Palette, color well and color dialog

GUI95

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Current color
Color
Basic colors

Ready — try the example.

States and behavior

Swatches, RGB values, preview draft, committed well, validation and cancel rollback.

Keyboard

Tab reaches the palette and numeric fields; arrows select a palette color; native number arrows edit components; Escape cancels.

Scope and adaptation

A deliberately small browser color dialog. It does not emulate the native Windows custom-color store, hue/saturation plane, system palette or color management.

Sources

Microsoft preliminary guide (1995), chapters 7–8 · Modern browser accessibility pattern

Original implementation; system colors are represented by CSS variables. The default 13 px system-font stack is a readable browser adaptation. The 1995 source is preliminary, not a final product specification. Test the target browser and native host before shipping.