More on Colours

For a lot of designers colours are one of the most important ways (after content layout) of conveying a message to an audience. So with this in mind it is easy to see why so many designers spend so much time dithering and experimenting with colour schemes.

Over the past few months here at PurePages, we have spent numerous hours playing around with colours, colour scheme software and visited many websites to find the colour scheme we liked for a clients website (some of these have been mentioned in our last blog).

So here's a quick look at what we have found most useful.

Websites
-colourlovers.com- My personal fravourite of the bunch. This site has thousands of colour schemes/palettes along with hundreds of patterns (for use as backgrounds or as you wish). This really is a top notch site.
-Adobe KULER- A Fantastic little gadget and certainly one to take a look at if you have a few minutes on your hands. KULER although flash based is slick and easy to use (though i doubt it does much for seo), it has a nice collection even if a little limiting.
-websitetips.com- Once you've played around with this you will find this a nice little tool to add to your arsenal of colour scheming tools.
-Dulux.co.uk- This may seem a little odd, but Dulux on their website show colours that go together (imagine it as a static version of their tv adverts). So in theory its as simple as letting them do all the work so you don't have to... as long as the client likes those colours that is.

Software
-Colour Schemer- As well as the online version this site also allows you to download a much handier tool (working out at around £25). This tool is far more advanced than what you see on the internet. However I would urge caution in it's use as I believe its likely to be a combination of this software and a website from above that gives the best result.

[EDIT: AK - KULER ADDED]