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Anyone have a good eye for colour?

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Bouminok:

--- Quote from: Winters on October 22, 2003, 01:02:22 PM ---I found this tool can give one some additional ideas for color combinations:

http://www.knorrpage.de/colormatch.html

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That is the best little tool posted all day :) I've been using it to fix the colours on the manicthought thing and my blog :)

morph:
I wasn't happy when it didn't work in Mozilla, so [Unk] you should re write it =]

Peter Duggan:

--- Quote from: bostasp on October 22, 2003, 08:57:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: Winters on October 22, 2003, 01:02:22 PM ---I found this tool can give one some additional ideas for color combinations:

http://www.knorrpage.de/colormatch.html

--- End quote ---

That is the best little tool posted all day :) I've been using it to fix the colours on the manicthought thing and my blog :)

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It's interesting, but limited!

Type in #000080 (navy, as used extensively in my personal site) and you get:

#000080 #0000CC #4D4D80 #7A7ACC #7F7F7F #7F7F7F

Which gives you further shades (including two the same!) but no real contrast.

For the #ffbf00 (orange/yellow) used for our school site, it offers:

#FFBF00 #B38600 #3DA8CC #B3ECFF #000000 #FFFFFF

Which is all contrast by comparison!

While it might be helpful under certain circumstances, I'd prefer to trust my own judgement. But then I've never really been into colour wheels and stuff either...

Overseer:
* Overseer is colour blind!
the webmaster guy that used to work here had a piece of freeware that had a compatible colours thing built in (and it wasnt just a generic web-safe swatch thingy)  maybe kinda similar to that thing posted, but it had browseable sets!

Bouminok:
All I did was take one colour... and just change a colour with it.

The dark grey on bostasp.com wasn't working in the background - im useless at colours, so tried that and got a green that well at the background.

It has its uses, but you really can't do a whole site on the colours it throws at you...

It's good though :)

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