Web site colour combinations made easy

A quick and easy way to help web designers find the perfect colour combinations for their web site designs.

Selecting the colour scheme for a website design can be a difficult task. Finding colours that compliment each other, while also providing contrast, to highlight important content is often hard. This colour scheme must also be compatible with the client's field of business and their branding.

Colorcombos.com

Colorcombos.com is a great website that has a number of tools to make selecting the perfect colour palette much easier.

They have a large collection of colour combinations to inspire any web designer. You can view and compare any combination of colours side by side as well as overlaying text and they also have a tool where you can enter a url and it will display all the colours used on that website.

Think what colours mean to people

As well as selecting a combination of colours that look good together, you should also think about what those colours symbolise to different people eg. red can mean love and romance but also danger and activity.

For an interesting article that discusses this in more depth please visit the excellent Veerle's Blog : Choosing color combinations.

This also contains a link to an impressive Flash presentation - Color in Motion by Claudia Cortes which explains the meanings of colour in a fun and interactive way.