Color pallets for websites

[JGjg]

does anyone know good ways to pick your color pallet? I think this can do so much to help website design but I don't really know how to do it

I would really like to be an expert on picking a few good colors before building a site.

 

[kleszcz]

http://easyrgb.com/

 

[giovanni]

Thanks for the great link, I always neede one of those, can't remember all those combinations...

 

[JGjg]

thanks. are there any starter sets available? I don't really know where to start with that site.

 

[kleszcz]

At first let's try Color Matching. Just select color collection and enter your RGB. You can find best matching colors here. Color Harmonies are also very interesting. Enjoy! :tu:

 

[Albino]

i have recently found http://www.colourlovers.co.uk

seems very useful

 

[JGjg]

i have recently found http://www.colourlovers.co.uk

seems very useful

awesome site thank

 

[jesse1]

any more sites?

 

[darzuaga]

a great one is http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html you can choose from a variaty of colors that would look great for your site.

 

[Jackie]

There are some great colours, and colour schemes in the "Color Schemer Gallery".
http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes/

 

[kleszcz]

Getting color pallets great resources. Nice find. Thanks.

 

[Jackie]

No problem. Thanks for the +REP kleszcz.

 

[zielak]

Another one http://www.colorcombos.com/

 

[enlytend]

Here's a trick for making your own:

1. Take a photo that you plan to use on the site, or one with colors that suggest the site's theme (i.e. bright, pastel, dark, serious, earthtones, fun ...).
2. Open the image in photoshop (or other advanced graphics program).
3. Filter-> Pixelate -> Mosaic (in Corel/Jasc it's Effect->Distortion effects -> Pixelate ... at least in the older versions)
4. This breaks the picture into blocks of solid colors.
5. Use the eyedropper tool to sample and record color codes from 5 - 10 of the largest areas.

Don't have a Pixelate filter handy? You can also convert the image to a .gif and reduce the number of colors to get a similar effect (do NOT allow "dithering"), but the other way's a little nicer.

If you're using a photo, this is THE way to match page colors to the photo !