Colour harmony (uncomplete)

John K. and Keith Lango mentioned the importance of colours when designing a show. I didn’t really understand what they were talking about but since I want to redesign this blog, there is no better time to do a bit of study.

First if you feel lazy and want to find a quick color scheme for your website, run to
http://www.colourlovers.com/ , http://colormatch.dk/ (Internet Explorer only) “4096 Color wheel” or try the new free Adobe colour application Kuler (requires Flash9):
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Let’s start with the basics. The colour wheel is a simplified approach to the light spectrum.

colour_primary.jpg
colour_secondary.jpg
colour_tertiary.jpg
colour_tint.jpg
colour_shade.jpg

Read more:

Theory:

Tiger Color

Tools

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