I want to redo my web site and would like some color suggestions. So far I know I want to use warm colors. I will have a white BG and orange BG for the links table.<br />
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I'm currently looking for suggestions for other good colors that will look good with it. Like link color, text color, logo color etc etc.<!--content-->Well it looks pretty 'crisp' from here.<br />
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Why do you need to re-design?<br />
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If you're looking for 'warm' colors - I think they are purely objective.<br />
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Did someone tell you - you *need* to re-design?<br />
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Why are you listening to them?<br />
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Curious...<!--content-->You should learn about the color wheel. Opposites are good complements and look great when used together, e.g. green/red, yellow/violet, orange/blue, but you can also use adjacent colors for a less drastic effect, e.g. orange and yellow back grounds are good together and then use violet and blue text to offset them.<br />
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Here is an example of the color wheel:<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.saumag.edu/art/studio/chalkboard/c-wheel.html">http://www.saumag.edu/art/studio/chalkb ... wheel.html</a><!-- m --><!--content-->Since the color wheel came up, here is a link to my Interactive Color Wheel (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://rocq.home.att.net/SIHwheel.html">http://rocq.home.att.net/SIHwheel.html</a><!-- m -->).<br />
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Possibly more helpful to ActionSports' question:<br />
Warm Colors (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.patternlanguage.com/apl/apl250/apl250.htm">http://www.patternlanguage.com/apl/apl250/apl250.htm</a><!-- m -->)<br />
Provides description of what warm colors are (then gets very technical)<br />
Palette Master (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://nebulus.org/index.html?pg=freebies/coders/palette/index.asp">http://nebulus.org/index.html?pg=freebi ... /index.asp</a><!-- m -->)<br />
Provides a set of é–¹çˆÂÂhetically pleasing colors to an interactively-selected base color<br />
ColorServe (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ac.biola.edu/~brian/csapplet.html">http://www.ac.biola.edu/~brian/csapplet.html</a><!-- m -->)<br />
Allows interactive selection and display of these colors:<br />
* Background<br />
* Text<br />
* Link<br />
* Visited Link<br />
* Active Link<br />
There are lots of great color resources on the net!<!--content-->Originally posted by drivle <br />
Well it looks pretty 'crisp' from here.<br />
<br />
Why do you need to re-design?<br />
<br />
If you're looking for 'warm' colors - I think they are purely objective.<br />
<br />
Did someone tell you - you *need* to re-design?<br />
<br />
Why are you listening to them?<br />
<br />
Curious... <br />
<br />
Yea there is nothing wrong with the look now, I like it. But I just think I'd like something with warm colors better, thats all. I at least want to test something with warm colors. Maybe I'll just leave it as is.<br />
<br />
Thanks<!--content-->
<br />
I'm currently looking for suggestions for other good colors that will look good with it. Like link color, text color, logo color etc etc.<!--content-->Well it looks pretty 'crisp' from here.<br />
<br />
Why do you need to re-design?<br />
<br />
If you're looking for 'warm' colors - I think they are purely objective.<br />
<br />
Did someone tell you - you *need* to re-design?<br />
<br />
Why are you listening to them?<br />
<br />
Curious...<!--content-->You should learn about the color wheel. Opposites are good complements and look great when used together, e.g. green/red, yellow/violet, orange/blue, but you can also use adjacent colors for a less drastic effect, e.g. orange and yellow back grounds are good together and then use violet and blue text to offset them.<br />
<br />
Here is an example of the color wheel:<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.saumag.edu/art/studio/chalkboard/c-wheel.html">http://www.saumag.edu/art/studio/chalkb ... wheel.html</a><!-- m --><!--content-->Since the color wheel came up, here is a link to my Interactive Color Wheel (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://rocq.home.att.net/SIHwheel.html">http://rocq.home.att.net/SIHwheel.html</a><!-- m -->).<br />
<br />
Possibly more helpful to ActionSports' question:<br />
Warm Colors (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.patternlanguage.com/apl/apl250/apl250.htm">http://www.patternlanguage.com/apl/apl250/apl250.htm</a><!-- m -->)<br />
Provides description of what warm colors are (then gets very technical)<br />
Palette Master (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://nebulus.org/index.html?pg=freebies/coders/palette/index.asp">http://nebulus.org/index.html?pg=freebi ... /index.asp</a><!-- m -->)<br />
Provides a set of é–¹çˆÂÂhetically pleasing colors to an interactively-selected base color<br />
ColorServe (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ac.biola.edu/~brian/csapplet.html">http://www.ac.biola.edu/~brian/csapplet.html</a><!-- m -->)<br />
Allows interactive selection and display of these colors:<br />
* Background<br />
* Text<br />
* Link<br />
* Visited Link<br />
* Active Link<br />
There are lots of great color resources on the net!<!--content-->Originally posted by drivle <br />
Well it looks pretty 'crisp' from here.<br />
<br />
Why do you need to re-design?<br />
<br />
If you're looking for 'warm' colors - I think they are purely objective.<br />
<br />
Did someone tell you - you *need* to re-design?<br />
<br />
Why are you listening to them?<br />
<br />
Curious... <br />
<br />
Yea there is nothing wrong with the look now, I like it. But I just think I'd like something with warm colors better, thats all. I at least want to test something with warm colors. Maybe I'll just leave it as is.<br />
<br />
Thanks<!--content-->