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How to Select Perfectly Matching Color Combinations - Mini-Guide, Related Articles
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Editor's comment:
Developers can build tools that let the user design a simple layout with pre-packaged modifiable components for trying different color combinations.
At the next level of sophistication, the design support tool "scans" your prototype document and creates a dummy layout page that reflects the generic components you have used along with their sizes and positions. For example, add a big title in the top center, two bars of colors at the bottom, three columns of text, a figure in the middle and so on. After finishing the dummy layout, testing and trying out new color combinations becomes a fun and easy task.
Recommended readings:
- Setting the Mood with Color by Sean Glithero
- Color My World by Molly E. Holzschlag
- Color Design for the Web by Vaishali Singh
- Color Theory by Meryl K. Evans
- Color Matters, a Web site with many articles in tips on color.
- Color Worqx has a color tutorial, palette picker and list of resources.
- wg on Web-based color pickers provides information on many Web-based color picking tools. Beware the article is a few of years old, but it has good information.
- Wink Search Results lists many quality resources and tools for color matching.
- Taga.licio.us search for "web" and "colors."
- Understanding Color Profiles by Dave Johnson is more about digital photos and the information might be valuable to you.
- Secrets to Using Color on Your Website and Common Pitfalls to Avoid by Michael Turner provides three common traps to dodge when it comes to using colors on a Web site.
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