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Colors that look good together

As you look at the various profile pages, you may have discovered that the combination of colors affects the overall appearance of the page and your reaction to them. Based solely on color, some pages just look better than others! That's because they use complimentary colors.

There is a science to the picking of complimentary colors.

The two links below provide details behind the science as well as provide a color tool you can use.

Background on color selection: [be sure to follow the links to other details from this page.] view link

Tool: To use the tool, drag the indicator on the color scale left/right. Then select among the different 'schemes' in the dropdown on the top right. view link

Michael...

posted by mbotos

thanks for the info. ill do that.

posted by RocEverDark
over 2 years ago

Even on my high speed cable modem, that second link did not want to load. I had to do a clean up of all my files, and even the second attempt to over a minute to load.

Thought I'd let everyone know in case they run across this problem.

posted by countryheart1955
over 2 years ago

I did not see any speed issues with the links. I used them yesterday from home and today at work.

Hopefully it was a temporary issues.

Michael....

posted by mbotos
over 2 years ago

FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!!

Great tool!!! The next question is how the resulting combinations will works versus the "browser safe colors" list. Lee? Any idea? What happens when you use a non-safe color? Do you get it or is it converted to the nearest safe one? I don't have a clue. Maybe some testing is in order...

However, this tool is terrific for displaying complementary and contrasting colors that LOOK GOOD TOGETHER!!!!!! Excellent find.

JC

posted by BluesPlayer
over 2 years ago

They don't actually convert the color. They just display it the best way they can. There are a limited number of colors (browser-safe) that display the same way in all browsers.

If it's not one of the colors that all browsers display the same way, then my browser is going to convert those electrons into a different scheme of pixels than yours will. So my hot pink may look like coffee and cream on yours.

You just can't tell. With millions of possible colors, it seems a pity to limit yourself to the 216 browser safe ones. And you don't have to.

Just be aware that if you use one of those millions of other colors, even if it's just a little teeny bit different RGB or hex code, my browser may interpret it a whole lot different.

posted by colleenm
over 2 years ago

Since we are all waiting for the contest judging to be over before going back to tinker with out profiles again, here are two excellent articles on the currency of 216 web-safe color set. You can read them while you wait.

Michael synopsis: No longer a concern. But read the articles and come to your own conclusions.

1] The Browser-Safe Web Palette

2] Web Colors [for those of you unfamiliar with Wikipedia -- it is an excellent resource]

Michael...

posted by mbotos
over 2 years ago