Picking a color scheme
by WendySometimes you know the colors you want to use for a design and sometimes you don’t. For those times you really aren’t sure you can use a nifty little tool such as Color Schemer’s Online Color Scheme Generator.
Even if you know a few colors you want to use, but not what colors would look best for accents, you can use the color scheme generator and save yourself lots of time wasted by selecting multiple colors. You can see right on the screen how it will look, how it contrasts with your existing colors, and even see other recommendations that you never would have thought went together.
This is one tool you should bookmark, it comes in handy.
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October 7th, 2006 at 8:21 pm
Thanks Wendy, that tool is a huge help.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Very nice Wendy.
Far too many times when I critique a website, I can’t get beyond “first impression” because the colors made my eyes bleed. I like the color scheme tool. Oh, and just because colors look good together doesn’t neccessarily mean you should be using them on your site.
Dave
October 29th, 2006 at 1:13 am
I agree CrankyDave, colors may look good together but you have to use common sense and see if they actually work together as a website color scheme. Red and blue actually look good together in some places, BUT if you mix them on a website (like red background and blue text) you have a definite recipe for bleeding eyeballs.