Could you please just reply with the first word that jumps into your head when you see the colour scheme below. The font is irrelevant. Its simply the colors:
Traditionally red is the color of anger. Very few webs use red for anything other than accent color and that in moderation. The one exception I can think of is the Fox News site. Shannon
ok - thanks for the comments - was trying to copy.... I mean, be inspired by something i saw in kfc, some tweaking required then!!
I think the red is ok, it is rich and deep. Bright red is nature's warning colour, as is yellow. It is the Yellow-orange part that is giving people a migrain. Try using cream with a grey outline, perhaps..
i know this is besides the point but people think in different ways some people like strong colors some people like subtle colors some people are immediately moved by shapes rather than colors i thinkif you wanted to get a more accurate opinion of those colours, without people being influenced by the font you should have just shown us the font my opinion/feeling - i liked it, it reminded me of a comic book i think i may have been influenced by the font but im not too sure i think if that suits the theme of your site you should go for it and i am not a big fan of red
DA That is a really nice resource. Thanks for pointing it out. Here is another that has given me (about as aesthetically-attuned as a tree stump, I'm afraid) some ideas, which I'd like to implement on my site, ....once I get my bigger problem (page-load time/HTML/learning CSS) sorted out . Using it to pick one base color will give you 16 more colors that are designed to work harmoniously with the first color picked. Worth experimenting with.
since when was that then???? that'll be the last time i eat a red apple or a yellow banana (ripe) i think you will find blue is natures warning colour...as it represents poison. did you never see the blue spagetti thing? which totally puts your natures warning theory out of the window...as the majority of sites are BLUE.
Before I argue this point with you, think about it. Although subjective, generally what I said holds true. Ill give you a couple of clues nature: Bees, fire http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/colour_theory.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/colour_psychologyofcolour.shtml
no need to argue, i am right ....you are wrong red and yellow are nothing to do with NATURES warning, you were wrong to post that.
I was just trying to keep it simple. You are arguing semantics. Here is a generally accepted response to colour (something useful for web designers at least). http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs3421/hypergraph/color/coloremo.htm Give me examples of blues as a warning colour in nature or not.