Help Choosing Color Schemes for Your Web Sites
I use ColorSchemer all the time.
It helps you find colours that go together so that your web sites don’t wind up looking really sick.
When you have devised a really good colour scheme, you can show it off on the Color Schemer Gallery where you can also place a link to the site using the scheme.
If your colour scheme is any good, this will result in several hundred visits to your web site.
Of course these are not targeted visits, and they probably won’t convert, but it’ll make you feel good when you check your stats.
ColorSchemer has lots of useful features – a color picker to get colours from any part of the screen, a set of color scheme generators that allow you to start with one colour and infer a scheme from that alone, and so on. Check out the product to find out more.
However, there are two tools contained in ColorSchemer that really can help when you are stuck for a colour scheme. There ar:
Use Photographs To Select Natural Color Schemes
Using this ColorSchemer tool, you can choose a photograph you like and have ColorSchemer select a palette of colours from the photograph. You can come up with some very interesting, extremely natural colour schemes for web pages that way. The tool is included in ColorSchemer and is called PhotoSchemer.
Some Examples Using PhotoSchemer
Below are three color schemes generated from the photos listed.
Color Mixer
Or, if you prefer, you can choose two colours you rather like, then have ColorSchemer generate all the colours in between (either linearly, or radially), and you can design your web page to use those colours. The first example below shows a linear scheme based on the two input colours, and the second example is a radial scheme.
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