Color Tutorials

How to Choose the Colors for Your Website

You may not realize it, but the color scheme that you choose for your website is one of the most important decisions you will have to make. Color is important because it effects not only your mind, but your body as well. Studies have shown that the color red can stimulate your senses, and even raise your blood pressure. Casinos have been known to use red neon lights because it’s been said that people gamble more while under the glow of a red light. On the other hand, blue tends to have the opposite... learn more

Kuler It Up!

As I’ve been going through this blog, I noticed that there isn’t anything on Adobe’s color theme creator Kuler. Kuler is a free online repository of nothing but color palettes and themes created by developers and users for a wide variety of applications based on rules of color theory. It has an established community sharing color palettes and you can create a theme for anything online or out in the real world. learn more  Read More →

Different Techniques for Grabbing Color from Anywhere on the Screen

Designers of all breeds get color inspiration from anywhere, and often times it is right from the screen you are looking at. So how do we grab those colors from our screen for use in our projects? Let us count the ways: learn more  Read More →

Color Inspiration: The Vibrant Earthtoned Homes of North Portland

Sometimes you don’t need to go any further than your own neighborhood to find color inspiration. Surely not every neighborhood is as eclectically colored as Portland, but I’m sure many are! Check out these very nicely painted earth toned homes: learn more  Read More →

30 Dark Designs

We’ve done light designs, colorfull designs and grunge designs so today we’re going to the dark side. I’m looking for powerful dark sites built with xhtml and css … learn more  Read More →

10 Monochrome Websites

Monochrome websites can be very effective, especially when combined with a solid grid layout, continuing our color series today we take a look at 10 of the best … learn more  Read More →

30 Pink Websites

Today’s post continues the color-scheme series by taking a look at some excellent examples of pink websites or sites which make use of pink for elements in the design … learn more  Read More →

30 Orange Websites

As summer approaches lets take a look at some nice warming websites. Today we look at some of the best examples of orange websites. If you missed them, go take a look at the other colors in the series. learn more  Read More →

30 Yellow Websites

Another part in our color schemes series, today we are going to be covering yellow websites. If you missed them, go take a look at the others in the series. learn more  Read More →

30 Black Websites

Black can be a powerful color for the web if used correctly, here we dug out the best website examples for you … learn more  Read More →

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