Archive for the ‘Colors’ Category
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Have I said before how much I enjoy earth tones? Ha…just kidding, of course I’ve said it once, or twice…maybe three times. Well, it’s true.
The Bright Creative website is wonderful. I look at it and I just say, “ahh…that’s so nice.” Warm color combinations, smooth transitions, classy background textures all make it pleasing to my eyes. There isn’t anything harsh or abrupt about the design anywhere. Everything is subtle and smooth. Thank you Dave Shea for making such a great looking website. I appreciate it!
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
As I’ve said in previous posts, I like earthy colors. Browns, greens, subtle blues are great in my opinion. However, those colors aren’t always the best choices for grabbing people’s attention on the Internet. Bright colors done correctly are the best choices. The key words in that last sentence are “done correctly.” Shocking, harsh, pupil-killing methods are not what I’m referring to here when I say “done correctly.” You can use bright colors in a way that doesn’t melt the viewer’s retinas.
A good example is Fold-Your-Shirt.com. I wanted to feature this site for two reasons:
1. Its “done correctly” usage of bright colors.
2. Has anyone tried to fold their shirt this way?!?! I want to know! I haven’t tried it yet. I know that when I start trying this, I won’t stop until I’m successful. So, I want to know if anyone else has succeeded first!
Their use of the two different colors of green isn’t overwhelming. It’s attention grabbing, yes. But, it isn’t overdone. Again, this is coming from a guy who likes earth tones, so for me to say they used bright colors well truly is a compliment (in my humble opinion).
Any thoughts on how to properly use bright colors in a website design? Do you have any examples of someone using bright colors in a very bad way? Send the links to us! We’d like to check them out (as long as I’m wearing my polarized Ray Bans!).
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
What was your favorite Crayola crayon color when you were a kid? Are you still a Crayola fan? If so, well, here’s the color resource for you! We have referenced COLOURlovers site in the past and are doing so again. This COLOURlovers article contains information about all 120 Crayola colors. Along with containing some interesting facts about Crayola crayons, it also contains the Hex codes and RGB values for each color as well. This is a good chart to remember when needing to come up with some good, quality colors for future design work.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Very nice combination of colors on this site. Them being a web design provider, sure shows their talent off on their own design. I like the logo - how they worked a pixelated tree into it, looks very good and clean. The font used also works well with this design.
If you look at the rest of the site design you will notice it is well balanced, colors, white (gray) space, layout. It all works very nicely together.
Visit PixelTree here: PixelTree
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Are you looking for some inspiring color combinations for your next site design? Perhaps you’re just looking to revamp the color choices in your blog or personal website as well. In any of these cases, you should consider visiting COLOURlovers to spur you on in your color choices.
Here’s what COLOURlovers has to say about their site and community:
“COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification -a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews. There are currently 72,005 Lovers sharing 899,857 Colors in 306,801 Palettes. Lovers have scored the lovely Colors & Palettes 1,358,101 times and left 483,750 comments and created 57,159 Patterns.”
This is a great resource to use when you are trying to choose color combinations. I found myself scrolling through pages of color palettes. In addition to having a plethora of solid color combinations, they also have patterns that might pique your interest as well. Check it all out and have fun!
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
This guy, Matthew is the owner of the website design portfolio and blog at 0at.org, that’s zero-not-an-o-at.org. I’ve known this guy for a long time from seoMOZ.org, he used to do a lot of web design, programming and blog posting there (I’m a regular reader over there). I’ve never actually seen any of his other work and recently I found his blog where he has his past work posted. It is amazing! It’s not just the design, it’s the talent, you can see it. Lots of color and contrast, Web 2.0 ‘ish. You’ll just have to go look at it yourself. Here is a clip of his Portfolio:
You really got to see the actual images to appreciate. We all can learn a thing or two from this work. It’s been inspiring for me. He uses Macromedia Fireworks to illustrate his art.
Here is my favorite design from his portfolio:
This was a design for his blog that he later redesigned to what it is now.
Enjoy.
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Great color scheme website, the blog is full of different color schemes that you can pick from. The website it self is an inspiration. It’s clean, airy even. I think it’s the combination of white, green and blue together that gives me the airy or free feeling. Simple logo, nice boxy navigation buttons, the color boxes in the right sidebar. Very nicely done.
Visit ColorSchemer.com
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
The source site for this is: http://wellstyled.com
This is a great tool. I know I will use it next time I am developing a design for a new site. This tool allows you to select your main color and it will suggest and display a variety of color schemes that you can use. You will have a choice of pastel scheme version for your color, a dark pastel, contrast and a few more. This is definitely a tool that every web designer should have it his tool box.
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