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Posted by Matt May
Matt May
Courses Plus Student 1,360 Points

How do you choose a better website color scheme?

Hello,

I am currently on the HTML track and LOVING it. However the colors that are presented in the lessons are not what i picture. Are there any good ways or thought when choosing a color scheme for a website?

2 Answers

Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

There are endless resources on color science and color theory. Google either of those and you'll find lots of good information. A lot of it has to do with context though. A good color scheme of a website depends on what image is trying to be conveyed. Here's a cool tool to come up with and make your own color schemes though: kuler.adobe.com

Matt May
Matt May
Courses Plus Student 1,360 Points

Nick,

THIS IS AMAZING! This is quite spectacular. I like how you can take a picture of something and it will match the colors. Thank you for sharing. This will help alot.

robinbehroozi
robinbehroozi
15,912 Points
robinbehroozi
robinbehroozi
15,912 Points

Hi Matt,

When I'm trying to pick some colors for a website, I usually go with the colors in the logo. So for instance, if there are complementary colors, like orange and blue in the logo, I would open it up in photoshop and with the eyedropper I would see the exact rgb value. Then, when making the header, footer, main div or background, I would use those exact colours. So in CSS, I might write something like 

body{
           background:rgba(243, 94, 5, 1);
}

.main-header{
           background:rgba(5, 100, 243, 1);
}

Hope that helps!

Matt May
Matt May
Courses Plus Student 1,360 Points

Thank you for the suggestion about the logo. Seems easy enough. My logo is black and red, find complimentary colors shouldn't be too hard.