Site for Help With Colour Schemes

[Educator]

Hi All,

I came across Choosing Color Schemes site today when I had a need to pick a contrasting colour for a new paragraph I was adding to the Welcome section of our site.

What I like about it is the tool to automatically display contrasting colours based upon the main colour you choose.

We, finally, added a new page to our web site called Projects Listing where we list the first article in each 5+ series of articles about a particular renovation or energy conservation project on our home. How do I quickly get the visitor's attention?

I wanted to use a colour completely different from the brown, blue and green that are our site's colour scheme. But, I don't want it to yell at the visitor.

The tool on this site let me use a particular shade of red (I know, I know.....but before you judge my colour selection go to our site and see for yourself ) that I think does not 'yell' but simply draws the visitors attention amoungst all the other 'stuff' on our site.

What do you think about my colour selection? Appreciate your feedback.

Dan

[introduceyour]

Thanks for posting that. It's interesting. I've been working more and more with color palettes lately and find the whole thing really interesting.

By the way, if you're looking for really advanced palettes, kuler from Adobe is amazing. I've been spending tons of time playing around with colors and options.

It's at kuler

Luc
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IntroduceYour.com

[ghing]

thanks for that one educator.. that's a very interesting site.. really helpful..

[Educator]

Thanks for the suggestion, introduceyour. I'll tuck that one away for the next time I want to have text that is different from our standard colour scheme yet does not 'yell' at people.

Can't be too careful with colours on web sites.

Dan

[adanner81]

Thanks for the info...I've been looking for ways to change the look of my blog so things like this really help me out.

[JillianApproved]

Another good tool to help in choosing colors is a Firefox add-on called Colorzilla. A blogging friend turned me on to it. I've messed around with it a little, I think it has the potential to be very helpful to people picking and choosing colors for their site.

[PaulR]

Hey Dan,

Nice to see daily home renovation tips ranking so well in google. Nice job.

Best of luck

[April]

My favorite color scheme choosers are [ws] Color Scheme Generator 2 and ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox