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December 03, 2004
Really great color-design website
A fabulous resource that explained to me all about colors on the web:
http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorspot.html.
Colorspot.
This site taught me for the first time, about:
- color schemes
- how colors are used in color schemes in the design world
- how to combine colors on a website
- how I can easily pick colors for a website
- the psychological effect those colors may have on a website visitor (follow the link to the meaning of color on another site)
Also, there are colors I've seen on this website that I haven't seen anywhere else.
Its fair to say that everything I need for creating future website colors are in this one place.I'm really grateful about this site and for the work that the author, John December put into it.
Its opened up a new mini world for me. Suddenly I look around me and I can see how various things are designed according color schemes: brochures, books, office furniture, websites. I went over to Amazon, and understood how their colors are made up.
My advice is that you read this site slowly, and read from the beginning. It can seem technical in parts if you don't understand the basics on the site. But do persevere. In particular, make sure you see their page on creating color schemes. This is possibly the most useful page you can find anywhere on website colors, and will quickly give you the power to design your own schemes.
All in all, for web-color-design this site is clearly the dogs b*ll*cks (slightly rude expression from England).
{Reminder: as I said in my post yesterday, my main aim at the moment is to learn basic webdesign. That's the primary aim for the next few weeks. This color website research is part of that}
Enjoy
Luke
Posted by onelukey at December 3, 2004 02:00 PM
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