Web design and color selection Which color could I choose suitably if my web has grass green background?
You can check out http://www.colourlovers.com/ . It has a lot of color schemes and it can be quite inspiring when you're trying to get started with a new design.
and easier to figure what colors should be used for any text. 'back in the early days' of programming when we started to have 256 colors out of 65K possible, there was a calculation used to turn RGB into greyscale for the VGA card - both IBM and M$ put a lot of research into those numbers and in their own accessability guides of the time came up with the rule '50% luminance contrast minimum' to determine which colors provided the best levels of contrast for easy reading. One of my older posts covers this in good detail: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=3932375&postcount=17 Just something to keep in mind when choosing your colors - is anyone going to be able to read it? A lot of your 'start in the goofy paint program' designs are a miserable /FAIL/ in that regard because for all their alleged learning about colorspaces, they never learn contrast as it applies to the human eye.
Too many nice color selection tools here. And the deathshadow advice is more useful. Thanks everyone, thanks more.
which reminds me what i read in a bulletin for people with A.M.D (not the company, the disease - Age related Macular Degeneration): the best way to make visionaly challenged people to see what you want them to see (for example, your ad) is to put opposite colors side by side. (in that case - if you RichardSEO aiming for visionaly challenged surfers on your web, you should put above the "grass green" background a "flame red"
Oh, no, thanks ayelet.k, thanks for your suggestion. www.TradeTuber.com is a global B2B marketplace online, is business site, is not for entertainment or for design. I want to choose the offwhite for the web text. Thanks for you.~
Uhm... no. First off green + red, at least for text is often quite illegible. Do the math from the formula I linked to - pure green (0,255,0 = 59% lum) and pure red (255,0,0 = 30% lum) only equals 29% difference, making it illegible. For the most part you are looking at going with a fullbright green and a really dark red (0,75,0) to have a snowballs chance in hell of legibility. Reds and blues, the closer you get to their pure color are very hard to deal with as combined they only make up 41% of the apparant luminance, while the rule of thumb is 50% luminance for usability minimums. Ever notice magenta is very difficult to read on a blue background? That's the cause. Blue text on red background or vice versa? Same thing. It's why of the lower 7 standard VGA colors the light grey (192L), yellow (170L) and magenta (134L) are of acceptable contrast on a black background. The rest are too low a luminance.
Here http://www.skalfa.com/press/site-templates-colors-of-success.html you will be able to find useful information on selecting colors for your design depending on the goals you want to achieve, and most importantly, on how to combine these colors efficiently to make your design look harmonious.
Look for a program buy the name of color schemer studio that might make it easier on you if you're not knowledgeable about color theory.
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I forgot about these sites check them out they might give you want you want for free. http://colorschemedesigner.com/ http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30 Hope that helps.