August 10th, 2010

100 Delightful and Pleasing Color Palettes and Swatches

Colors are one of the most valuable things in the life of everybody, wherever you go you like find yourself surrounded in combination of different colors and shades. Colors can have huge impact on someone’s mood and nerves; it can evoke you feelings and emotions. Same as colors, color palettes also play an important role in everyone’s life because if the color combination is not good enough to delight people then there is no use of using colors, so it is important that you take advantage of color palettes and chose best and suitable color combination for your projects. Today we have collected 100 Delightful and Pleasing Color Palettes making it easy for you to get an idea of the color combination you need.

July 2nd, 2010

25 Free Color Tools, Apps and Palette Generators

The marvelous thing about color within design is you have the choice from an infinite number of possibilities and combinations. On the flip side of that, having infinite color possibilties makes it very difficult to lock down on the perfect color scheme or palette for your project. This is were the post will hopefully help you.

In this post we have collected 25 completely free tools, apps and generators to help you find, manage, and create beautiful and, hopefully, perfect color schemes.

June 1st, 2010

20 Amazingly Easy to Use Color Tools for Designers

Taking the time to choose and test the colors that mesh well with your web or print project can go wrong if you’re not familiar with color theory and/or which colors can be combined. Because choosing the right color for your design is so vital, for the most part, a large chunk of designers take this very seriously (as you should too).

This is why we’ve put together this awesome list of 20 color tools for designers. It will allow you to select and test a variety of colors for all of your future projects.

May 22nd, 2010

Why Colors Can Make or Break Your Design

Color will be one of the first things anyone notices when visiting your site and it will be a large part of the initial impressions people form about you, your website, and your business. Color sets a mood and creates an emotional response in your audience.

Set the wrong mood or create an undesired emotional response and little you do after will matter. You will have put people in the wrong frame of mind to absorb your content or buy your products and services. Color matters.

May 13th, 2010

Simple, Practical Color Theory

The mastery of color theory, relations and harmonies is one of the primary steps to uncovering the full beauty and potential of your images (in the realms of art, design and/or photography). Find out more in this simple, practical, colorful guide.

May 10th, 2010

Get your designs to pop: Part 3 – Colors

Though sometimes carelessly splashed together, colors set the “feel” of a design and convey an emotional message before the visitor has read one single line of text. I’ve talked about this in an article last year, called Color choices ( how not to suck), in which I’ve put together a few of the more advanced ways to help with your chromatic endeavors. Well, now it’s time for some more basic info on this subject.

May 3rd, 2010

Top 22 Helpful Color Tools for Designers

If you are a designer that is stumped on color variations for your project, you’re in luck. Choosing colors for your project can be a hard task. You have an idea in your head but you can only pick one. For this type of situation you should play around with different color variations. For this task we have gathered many useful color combination tools to make this process easier. Although the tools are all different, their main goal is color schemes. We found other tools, but they didn’t meet the criteria, so the tools below are the best on the web!

April 16th, 2010

Color Inspiration: Wonderful Uses of Beige

Beige and tan are most often used in websites simply as background colors. They’re commonly seen used in paper textures, grunge sites, or, occasionally, as a solid-colored background. The advantage is that, because they’re neutral, they can easily be combined with any number of other colors without clashing.

The websites shown below offer a pretty complete picture of how beige and tan are used in today’s website designs. There are twenty five sites included, but please feel free to share more within the comments.

April 3rd, 2010

Empathizing Color Psychology in Web Design

The way different colors influence our mood, state of soul and body is really exciting. Most of us do not realize how it works and only a few probably pay attention. Though the influence of the colors may be some what overestimated, we can obviously feel it in some situations (imagine yourself in a dark red room or in the room in the sky colors). Today we’ll be speaking about color perception and color psychology in website design, the way different brands use colors and what’s their message.

March 10th, 2010

A Look into Color Theory in Web Design

Unarguably one of the most important aspects of any design is its colors. Designers create the style of a site, as well as the movement it makes, the emotion it creates, and its purpose based largely upon the color choices they make. Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites.

February 2nd, 2010

Color Theory For Designers, Part 2: Understanding Concepts And Terminology

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If you’re going to use color effectively in your designs, you’ll need to know some color concepts and color theory terminology. A thorough working knowledge of concepts like chroma, value and saturation is key to creating your own awesome color schemes. In Part 1: The Meaning of Color of our color theory series, we covered the meanings of different colors. Here, we’ll go over the basics of what affects a given color, such as adding gray, white or black to the pure hue, and its effect on a design, with examples of course.