Today I Learned: #BADA55, #B00B1E, & Spritecow.com

Completely by chance I found out that #BADA55 is hex for a badass green color.  

Shortly after, I learned that #B00B1E is hex for a red that doesn’t make my eyes bleed.  

Then through some twitter magic conjoured by my new-found favorite colors (and @patrickmcgovern) I was hipped to the existence of spritecows a CSS sprite code generator. Up till this point, I’ve been using Adobe Fireworks to manually measure out sprite positions. While Fireworks is pretty accurae, it’s an extremely time consuming process.

To be completely honest, tools like this make me very uncomfortable. I don’t like taking shortcuts on processes that I don’t feel like I’ve truly mastered but I think I’ll have to let this one slide. In a production environment my petty insecurities are completely irrelevant and the only thing that truly matters are results.

Will wonders never cease!?