This page is designed to link to some colour referance tool websites to comunicate a colour by referance number or common name. This method is not as accurate as sending an actual colour swatch but may be good enough for most needs.
A good colour referance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors
Colour common names http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa358802.aspx
Colour table http://www.immigration-usa.com/html_colors.html
Colours by name (lightness) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa358801.aspx
Colours by name (saturation) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa358803.aspx
Colours by name (hue) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa358800.aspx
http://milov.nl/iambald/24.html record the hex value of the required colour "#??????"
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/boethin/pub/coca/ record the hex value of the required colour "#??????"
http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html record the hex value of the required colour "#??????"
Note - if any of these links go stale (no longer work), or you know of a better referance site please send a brief email.
