Library: Web Design

A fast way to choose a custom web palette

If you’ve ever spent hours in the paint aisle at your favorite hardware store trying to pick colors for your bedroom walls, you probably have trouble picking attractive colors for your websites. Fortunately, several sites can help you take the guesswork out of creating color palettes. One of the most popular is ColorMatch 5K http://colormatch.dk. All you have to do is adjust three sliders (for red, green, and blue); ColorMatch then creates a 5-color palette depending on what color scheme you choose from the dropdown list based on the one you mixed with the sliders. Each color’s hexadecimal value—e.g., #81A364—appears below it. If five colors aren’t enough for you, visit Colormixers online at http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr. This site, developed by Kim Jensen, is based on ColorMatch 5K but creates nine...