Colour Recommendation Resources?

[darkX3536]

Hi, is there any resources (books, websites etc.) that can recommend me appropriate colours to use in my website? (Eg. blue for an "airy" feeling or depict the sky...)

Thanks!

[mdailey]

Check out ColorSchemeDesigner.com. That site helps you by constraining your color options to complimentary colors and other appealing color combinations.

[darkX3536]

Check out ColorSchemeDesigner.com. That site helps you by constraining your color options to complimentary colors and other appealing color combinations.

Tried that; did'nt give me what I wanted...

[farscapeone]

http://kuler.adobe.com/
http://www.colourlovers.com/

[darkX3536]

http://kuler.adobe.com/
http://www.colourlovers.com/

Hmm... Heard about Kuler (and is planning to use it). Colourlovers is quite close to what I wanted but how about lists of colours people usually associate with each emotion/event etc (eg. blue=air, coolness, blueberries)?

[essellar]

That's but one of the subjects covered in the book The Zen of CSS Design (Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag). The book isn't a how-to (although it does have some implementation details in marginal boxes), it's more of a philosophical look at things like colour, genre, typography, accessibility and so forth. The example designs might seem just a little bit dated (they missed the whole large-print, big buttons and reflections and gradients everywhere craze), but the fundamentals still work. As long as you're not an absolute n00b looking for teh codez, it's well worth a read.

[darkX3536]

Thanks, I did read its sequel though (Fundamentals of CSS Design if I am not wrong)... I guess colour seems to be a personal thingy, subject to the target audience's preferences... XD

[digitalimages]

Colour is definitely a "personal" preference.....but if you go to most paint stores they have colours listed in categories like warm, cool, hot, etc. I think that the colour of a web site should have some relation to the content. If the site has a company/product logo then the colours of that logo should be used in either a similar or complimentary tone....I like blue and or green tones myself...but then again that's my personal taste

[darkX3536]

Colour is definitely a "personal" preference.....but if you go to most paint stores they have colours listed in categories like warm, cool, hot, etc. I think that the colour of a web site should have some relation to the content. If the site has a company/product logo then the colours of that logo should be used in either a similar or complimentary tone....I like blue and or green tones myself...but then again that's my personal taste

Well, the problem is knowing which colours are related to the content/feel of the website...

[farscapeone]

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/color-psychology/