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How to the Choose Colors for Your Website

Barbara Holbrook — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:00:55 +0000

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 effect; It’s been shown to calm the mind, and relax the body. (...)
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Kuler It Up!

Jim Creech — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:00:44 +0000

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.(...)
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Different Techniques for Grabbing Color from Anywhere on the Screen

chriscoyier — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:01:48 +0000

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:
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Color Inspiration: The Vibrant Earthtoned Homes of North Portland

chriscoyier — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:41:13 +0000

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:

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30 Dark Designs

Oli — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:30:31 +0000

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 …

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10 Monochrome Websites

Oli — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:15:22 +0000

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 …

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30 Pink Websites

Oli — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:25:23 +0000

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 …

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30 Orange Websites

Oli — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:30:49 +0000

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.

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30 Yellow Websites

Oli — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:55:37 +0000

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.

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30 Black Websites

Oli — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:46:03 +0000

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

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