: How to tune up colors in web page Could you advise me some techniques and tools that you use to tune up colors in a web site? The website has background and there are some images with logos.

@Barnes591

Find a colour you like and do a search in colourlovers.

Also on a simple scale (I'm no designer) but changing from thinking in RGB to HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) is a great way to produce gradients of colours that you like - its explained well in this post: Why programmers suck at picking colours.


A better way to model color is the HSV color space (sometimes called HSB: hue, saturation and brightness): most color-picking dialogs of graphic programs have an HSV mode and it’s clearly much better than RBG because it allows you to easily go back to the ‘linear contrast’ strategy by just changing the brightness and keeping hue and saturation fixed.But now you’ve turned a grayscale UI into a monochromatic one, not that much of an improvement.

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@Candy875

Here are a couple of links to articles with links to many tools
thedesignmag.com/27-color-tools-and-resource-for-choosing-the-right-color-palette.html www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/02/25-free-color-tools-apps-and-palette-generators/

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@Merenda212

Have you tried Adobe Kuler? ( kuler.adobe.com )

A nice site for generating colour schemes :)

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@Caterina187

I like using visibone. It's been a while since I used it, but they used to have an online service where you can compare the color contrast between colors that you choose on their web app. Nice for seeing the horrible contrasts that I usually thought would be good.

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