I am working on a template for SMF and as I'm a programmer and not a designer, I am looking for some input/help from a designer to help pick more appropriate colours :)
If anyone is interested, please PM me a few links you've created/designed and we can chat :)
I am looking specifically for someone who knows how colours work together and have an eye for design :)
if you can make graphics too - that's a bonus ;)
Most of the time its just trying and if it doesn't look right, try again.
(just some advice ;) (i doubt that you needed it) sorry i don't have time... school exam's :( )
I might have some time later this week if you're interested.
Jason
I found this tool can give one some additional ideas for color combinations:
http://www.knorrpage.de/colormatch.html
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
leet. If only it worked in Mozilla.
I should rip the source, rewrite it so it does, and send it back to the author...
-[Unknown]
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
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 :)
I wasn't happy when it didn't work in Mozilla, so [Unk] you should re write it =]
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
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 :)
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...
/me 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!
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 :)