HTML Colors Are Easy to Use
Monday July 6, 2009
Finding the right colors for your Web page is often more difficult than writing the HTML color codes required to get them to display. I often find myself browsing through color palette galleries to see if I can find a combination of colors that sparks my interest. But if all you're looking for is how to add HTML colors to your Web pages, you have lots of options. This article will help you add HTML colors to your pages and explain how HTML colors work.
Yes, choosing the color scheme can sometimes be a challenging task, but I think it’s also important not to “over-plan” it, because then your color choices might become too obvious or cliché.
In this case I would additionally mix the colors or at least make them less “raw”. (There’s always room for extra improvement when it comes to colors, for me at least. )
I generally start with some vivid image as an inspiration, finding a combination of textures or colors I like then pull the colors from the image.
I find this far easier than picking colors raw for my web sites.
One technique I’ve used (repeatedly) to select color schemes is to look at pictures of exotic animals and plants.
There are very few creatures in nature with clashing color schemes.
You can get some very cool ideas involving vivid blues, greens, reds and yellows from various species of tropical fish and frogs.
A simple search on google images can be wonderful when combined with an eyedropper tool.