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[donkeymusic]

Hello,

I was just wondering what steps do you take to choosing the colours for your site?

i seem to struggle to choose a range of colours that look fight to the eye, i was thinking that i wanted to use a range of pastel browns for a site and use differnet shades, you know like in a DIY store where you get the paint tester strips and it shows shades of a colour. I wanna be able to do that but just seem to end up with solid colours that look like lego bricks.

can anyone help me out.

any example of what i mean is here:

http://www.danrichard.com/

who shows various shades of noe colour and i think they work well,

[Mr. Matt]

try and think about what the site is for and go for what colours would work well with it. Say if you were doing a site for a death metal band you wouldn't have bright colours would you.

Also pick what colours you like and play around with the different shades of that colour too see what you get and like

hope that helps

[Clandestine]

mess around with this site, until you find the colors you think look good with each other http://www.colorsche...com/online.html

-Devyn

[donkeymusic]

Clandestine, on Mar 23 2006, 06:59 PM, said:

mess around with this site, until you find the colors you think look good with each other http://www.colorsche...com/online.html

-Devyn

thats the sort of thing i was looking for thanks, i will check that out

[MK_LAGI]

yeah, i mean look at pixel2life they have blue and green, and green is the eyes faviourite colour... really depends on wat the site is about

[greg]

Personally, I prefer to play around with colors until I find a match that I like. I don't like using automatic color-matchers (like the one linked above) because I'd rather do the artistic work myself instead of letting some program pick the colors for me.

[tjl30]

Try http://www.colorblender.com/ thats what I use (sometimes).
This alows your to play around with the colors a bit more.

[Scythar]

Woaw, colorblender is fantastic if you need rapid colorshemes,
i wished i had known this a few years ago.

[Jacorre]

When it comes to colors, it's good to know a little about color theory and which colors go well with eachother. There's plenty to read on color theory here.

[coolaid]

theres no such thing as color theory. with the right shades, even bright blue and red go together nicely...

[Donna]

coolaid, on Apr 21 2006, 09:41 AM, said:

theres no such thing as color theory. with the right shades, even bright blue and red go together nicely...