necrotic — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:10:31 +0000

Thanks for the links Julia! I'll look at them all now, since I actually really don't have anything to do for once in my life!

Megan — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:13:57 +0000

I've never seen an online colour tool that works as well as I'd like it to. I can always find better combinations on my own, atlhough those tools are good for ideas.

I think that colour is something you really just need to ave an eye for. If you don't, borrow a colour scheme from another design (could be anything - a website, a sports team, a magazine ad, a nature photo, a photo of a designed interior etc.)

Renegade — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:52:45 +0000

lol Julia, just a few?

The Webmistress — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:30:36 +0000

Here are a few more colour sites:

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend
http://www.colors4webmasters.com/safecolor/index.htm
http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wizard.asp
http://www.easyrgb.com/harmonies.php
http://www.freewebmastertips.com/php/content.php3?aid=53
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab
http://www.simplygraphix.com/color_combinations1.html

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 05:13:30 +0000

There are numerous, mysterious ways in which designers work. I do not know them. But I know a program that knows them.

There are many models for colour relationships that work... they're fundamentally the same: some groups of colours work and others don't -- probably the most basic relationship chart is the colour-wheel (darned if I can remember the colours on it). Colours that are opposite each other on the wheel are "complementary" and work together... like yellow and purple, red and green (??).

I'm very fuzzy on colours, so I stick to tools like the colorschemer linked above. In fact, I'm partially red-green blind, so my ineptitude is not something I can do much about.

That reminds me, there was a good site about colours and design called "shades of grey" or similar. Does anyone here know it? I seem to have lost the URL, and can't find the site...