: Need help with the Color Combination for the Red I have come up with a Basic Design for my web app. I want to use the Red color as it helps induce apetite. Well while designing i have

@Angela777

Adobe has their own spinoff of colourlovers: kuler.adobe.com
You can easily search red palletes: kuler.adobe.com/#themes/search?term=red%20contrast

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@Goswami567

Here is a great site I use when I need to create a color scheme. This link will take you to your color (cd0001) plus it's complementary/contrasting color on the color wheel.
colorschemedesigner.com/#0021Tw0pJw0w0

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@Berumen635

Hi again seems your stuck badly in this, check red color schemes online and get some working idea, try on this for working red pallets Color lover

and please look into these sites for some guidance....


Red Color Combinations
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Contra-st
My Red
10 colour contrast checking tools
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@Hamm6457569

I can't tell if the McDonalds thing is a random ad, or if you're going to be offering McTandoor. :-) That's not just a bit of humor. The reds in that image would be quite useful and necessary if it's a permanent part of the page, because the image is almost entirely red: only the black eyebrow and eye outlines, parts of the "skin" (orange) and the yellow arch are not firmly in the reds. You could build your entire color scheme with the eyedropper tool from that one image.

Keep your red motive color where it is, but darken and desaturate it a little (#bf1e1e would probably be enough) so it's not such a distraction. Right now it's by far the brightest of all the color elements on the page, so the eye stops dead at the site name. Make that red a little darker, precisely left-align the B of "Bakasura", the E of "Eat" and the I of "I Would..." and you will compel the eye down, into and across your top row of images.

Where you have black and gray now, use unsaturated reds (no more than 4 different colors plus a neutral gray or two). Oranges would also work -- you could eyedropper food colors from your popular images. Keep that top image row dark, because the contrast is effective and maintains a good eye trail. The #cccccc gray in the bottom left works well, as does the gray nav text. They will prevent your red mono or red/orange analogous scheme from becoming too sickly sweet.

Read up on monochromatic and analogous color harmonies for more information, and if your McDonalds ad IS a permanent part of the page, take off your saturated and unsaturated reds and/or oranges directly from that image.

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