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      <title>How to Choose Good Website Color Schemes</title>
      <dc:creator>Maha</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 06:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Color Plays a huge role in how we see the world, and when it comes to your website, you need to give your Customers a beautiful experience to get them hooked on your brand.&lt;br&gt;
So while working on designing a website we have to understand specific points including:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Get to know color psychology basics.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Prepare a sheet of color theories.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Prepare a sheet of mixing color combinations.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Keep it simple.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Integrate your branding through it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Color associations&lt;/strong&gt; are powerful. These associations are instinctive and often subconscious. For example, everyone learns to associate green with leaves and nature and yellow with the sun.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Color theory&lt;/strong&gt; is a set of fundamental principles that control how to create harmonious color combinations. Understanding these principles is an important first step in creating effective color palettes for brands and websites.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;First, you need to understand &lt;strong&gt;primary&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;secondary&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;tertiary colors&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
The color wheel is a great tool for understanding the basics of color theory is the color wheel.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Felxar9nq99bnwkmnse07.jpeg" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Felxar9nq99bnwkmnse07.jpeg" alt="Image description" width="800" height="450"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You might be seeing a tint (a color with white added to it), a shade (a color with black added to it), or a tone (a color with grey added to it).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Or you could be seeing an oversaturated or desaturated color. The saturation of a color is how bright or dull the color is.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;colors are combined to create new colors&lt;/strong&gt;, but we also need to look at how to combine different colors.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There are five main color combinations: &lt;strong&gt;complementary&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;split complementary&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;triads&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;tetradic&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;analogous&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;monochromatic&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Foubp2gqg73v4m6aajq39.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Foubp2gqg73v4m6aajq39.png" alt="Image description" width="800" height="625"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Apply Color Harmony Rule and Understand it more using Adobe colors here: &lt;a href="https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep it simple&lt;/strong&gt;, think about simplicity. A really complicated, busy color scheme often confuses the eye.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Finally, consider how your branding will play into your color scheme.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Websites and resources that I find helpful:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://colormind.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Colormind&lt;/a&gt; : Color palette generator.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://colorcurves.app/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;ColorCurves.app&lt;/a&gt;: Color palette generator that uses curves to generate color palettes.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://colorgradient.dev/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;ColorGradient&lt;/a&gt;:    A free tool to create simple and complex CSS Gradients visually.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://colorate.azurewebsites.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Colorate&lt;/a&gt;: Color scheme tool for designers and developers. This will help you draw inspiration and serve as a resource for your color work.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://khroma.co/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Khroma&lt;/a&gt;:    Khroma uses AI to learn which colors you like and creates limitless palettes for you to discover, search, and save.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://duo.alexpate.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Duo&lt;/a&gt;: Duo is a collection of colour combinations that I’ve curated from personal projects or that I’ve come across on the web.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Helpful Website for Create color tints/shades:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Visit Web tool &lt;a href="https://colorswall.com/palette/generate" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;colorswall&lt;/a&gt; For more Help you can check this &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDzbieV9mU4&amp;amp;ab_channel=ColorsWall" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Video Tutorial &lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Also you can find a free Color Psychology eBook &lt;a href="https://www.flux-academy.com/resources/color-psychology-e-book?utm_source=blog&amp;amp;utm_medium=post&amp;amp;utm_campaign=color-psychology-e-book" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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