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Discussion on: How Do You Decide on Colors in Design?

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Aidan Walters-Williams • Edited

I’m not a designer by any means but I tend to go with a few rules when I do design things.

  • Palette of no more than 7 colours
  • 3 “neutral colours” of various levels of darkness
  • 2 “cold colours” - greens/blues
  • 2 “warm colours” - reds/oranges
  • I try and make the neutral colours off-monochrome with the background colour shifted towards the warm end of the spectrum and menu colours shifted towards the cold end of the spectrum.

And I also use coolors.co to play around with palettes to get a feel for the different colours! Hope that helps!