What is Reddit's opinion of COLOURlovers?

Basically just stick to monochromatic, analogous or triadic, the other ones (complementary and split-complementary especially) are much harder to master, IMO. You'll have to have at least a few gos at it to get anything with complementary that looks even remotely good. Also, bump the saturation down.

Also: colorlovers if you don't want to make the choice yourself.

Also: this and this online palette generator.

While I was out hunting for the sauce on this I found one of the most obscure comunities on the internet... I've found color aficcionados who share gifs of lesbian lap dances on tge comment section of color palettes... Wow, just, Wow... http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/3819600/Dutch_Summers.

(srs) Yeah most of them are giving me "indie band from 10 yrs back" vibes but that's not on her, she got the scheme pic here.

(TBH I love the concept overall, I think she did a great job.)

Aren't most countries' currencies like this? I think the US is one of the minorities with a one color currency.

Edit: Yep

So some thoughts on the site.

Your site is really slow, you should look into ways to speed it up. It takes over 6 seconds for the homepage to load initially and around 14 seconds to complete loading. You've got 43 javascript calls on that page alone. This is probably because you're hosting with Google on a shared service, but you still probably want to cut down as much as possible.

Your color scheme doesn't quite go together. Check out http://www.colourlovers.com/ for some good palates (really I just think it's the background that's off)

Your left hand list is too long. You need to find a better way to browse. Maybe a separate page for type of tingle and another for artist in a grid layout?

I think you've got a real start of what might be something nice here. Stick with it. :)

Here's what your website says about it:

>How can you copyright a color palette?
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>There is often confusion about how somebody can copyright or protect the rights to a combination of colors. You can't really protect or copyright the usage of a combination of colors in new works. Ie, if you take a color palette and then draw an illustration using those colors. But, what is protected is the arrangement of those colors into the rectangular shape that they are on COLOURlovers displayed along with their names. This is treated like a picture or work of art and can be protected... ie, you can't just scrape a bunch of palettes and put them as they are displayed here in a book you sell.

Nice work. Would possibly try using a different, less limey palette though but that's just personal preference. You could get a palette from Genji himself or here:

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/most-loved/all-time/meta

Also I think the sun could do with being removed or reworked

We just got Mirai Ticket and OmoiNare but I am so excited to hear the full version of Jingle Bells ga Tomaranai. I love the effort for the promotion, I hope they release a music video for the song!

On a side note, I always thought Chika's color was just orange. I didn't know that mikan is a color.

>She said the colours were not bright like Canadian money but were sort of a set of dark tints.

Well, this sounds about right? Couple of articles: here from 2013 and here from 2007.

Quotes:

>For as long as all of us can remember, the US dollar has been synonymous with the color green. But as of 2004 the US government has been redesigning our paper money and adding splashes color. The new $5 bill was just introduced and might be considered the most colorful piece of US currency ever produced.

and

>[The $100 bill is getting redesigned.] The redesigns began in 2003 when the government added splashes of color to the $20 bill. That makeover was followed by redesigns for the $50, $10 and $5 bills. The $1 bill isn't getting a makeover.

Seemingly, the mass production of these notes has been repeatedly delayed due to printing problems. Of course, in her universe perhaps there were no printing problems, and the currency was all coloured. In this one, it hasn't taken off properly yet.

My own are the most ridiculous I've seen.

Most rainbows seen in the show are not simply a mixture of colors, but are their own color unto themselves. Any liquid colored as a mixture shouldn't behave the way liquid rainbows do both times the ponies touch it, and actual rainbow thread would be quite garish in most contexts (not that it gets used anyway, but still). What color is it? Octarine (first seen on the Discworld), considering that it seems to be the color of magic (sonic rainboom, Elements of Harmony blast, that rainbow nuke that Dash did) and the ponies can see it just fine because they're all magic users (and/or cats).
The way I fit in FiM into an everything-crossover I'm helping to build is rather absurd. To summarize: one of Shadowfax's (the legendary horse from LotR) descendants was a chariot horse named Strawberry (renamed Fledge by Aslan) that was one of the first inhabitants of Narnia. He still believed in Eru Illuvatar, and so did his family line (which became gradually stronger due to the combined forces of Narnia's latent magic and their legendary bloodline), to the point where at the end of Narnia they decided to leave, permanently opening the Wood between the Worlds in the process. At this point they are discovered by England's wizarding underground, and develop into a community from there. (Now that I think of it, this is probably where the unicorns learned magic.) Not much happens for awhile (they were key to averting the 2012 apocalypse, but that's another very long story) and if everything goes well they develop a nation after humanity dies off (except for the ones way off in space) from a nuclear/robot/alien induced apocalypse. And that's how Equestria was made. And then Pokemon and Classic Sonic happen in the far future of that. Also, Philomena is Fawkes and Luna is named in part after Luna Lovegood.

Clashing colors is a HUGEEEE issue for me. Sadly this is rather common in the fandom. Makes me cringe.

Bytheways, here's a cool color palette generator. This entire site is awesome because they have an active community posting all kinds of color palettes

The large illustration that greets you on the homepage was outsourced to a designer. Everything else: palette, textures, layout, etc. was done by me. From the sounds of it, we are similar programmers with ideas and skills but not good with design.

My not-so-secret secret is: copy others and get inspiration from websites that aggregate things that look good.

Textures: Subtle Patterns. Pick one that doesn't distract.
Colors: ColourLovers. Can't go wrong with their Top 10.

Alternating blue stripe at the top? I noticed it on Gumroad (and other sites) so I took two colors from my palette and did the same. Really brings the colors of the site together and just adds an extra something

The whole "F It, I'm Launching" was due to the fact that I had received the homepage illustration, tidy'd up everything...and was terrified of showing the outside world. That's my code, opinions and decision out there and it's a bit intimidating if you've never shipped anything before.

Looking back, if I hadn't made the decision to invest a bit more time/money in to that image on the home page, I never would have launched. My advice: if you have a project you really want to share with the world, pretty it up just enough where you're no longer thinking "...this isn't pretty".

Keep in mind that a lot of the temples would not have been quite as gaudy as the reconstructions would seem to make them appear at first glance. The Utraviolet light and companion techniques used on Greek statues only allows us to see the "primer" if you will. Likely there would have been more finished details on top of the primer that would somewhat reduce the gaudiness. (here's an example for those who have not seen the reconstructed colours).

The reason we can't really say more that "likely" is because since any layer above the "primer" has been permanently lost, there is no way to reconstruct it. Since any guess would be without evidence, the reconstructions usually don't go any further than what we can determine about the "primer." How much added detail, if any, was there? The guesses range from some to none, but we can at least say the ancient Greeks really liked their bright colours!

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes has beautiful palettes! I'd try looking at some and getting inspired or making your own and see how the colours look together

http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/292482/Terra is an awesome palette and the three middle colours would be great in this sweater, just to give an example :P

OR http://colorschemedesigner.com/ an AWESOME interactive colour wheel :)

I disagree, it's not impossible for anyone to learn the same skills. Study some color theory, explore good designs in a systematic way, and practice. Check out resources like these:

http://www.colourlovers.com/

https://color.adobe.com/explore/most-popular/?time=all

http://davidjohnstone.net/pages/lch-lab-colour-gradient-picker

My take is you can make these colors work if you group them differently. I would play around, but maybe white, green, light blue, dark blue, burgundy, purple would work. Try grouping like colors together. I would mess around with them more, I think they are fine. OR another thing is you can de-emphasize some of the colors by cutting their stripe in half, like maybe make the darker colors and the white more an accent color by doing a thinner stripe. http://www.colourlovers.com/ is a cool site for color inspiration. Sorry for the weird sentences.

Edit: spelling

Water vapour, dust pollution, rain and hail can all tint the white flash of a lightning bolt, making them appear to be different colours.

Looks like a minimalist ColourLovers. Too minimalist. I like the Shades / Analogous / etc. feature, but the mobile-first design makes it a pain to use on a real desktop.

/r/Startups is for tips that can help founders, and even if you don't use a metal in your color it can help you out in other ways. For example, I'm going to put an awesome link right now to a website that is a social network for colors called ColourLovers. That link actually takes you to the top rated palettes of all time. From there, someone with no design skills can find good colors that are known to go well together for use in logos or on branding and websites. So from what you may consider a useless post, there is actually tons of useful content!

hm. were it me, I'd try to find another simpsons pattern anywhere that does list colors then sort of go from there... or maybe you can contact the author? barring that, I'd just wing it and get as close as possible. I found the official Simpsons Yellow in hexidecimal/rgb that you can probably then use to find a similar thread color?

Bonus gif ;)
The game is playable here if you'd like to try (Flash).
I used a palette from COLOURlovers.

Pretty much what you said it would look like.

I think this would look very sexy with gold details, similarly to Man City's kit from last season.

Monopoly money is colour-coded to make it easier to distinguish denominations. Many countries do that with their real money, too. We're only just starting to do anything like that, but very little.

Some sites that I like for coming up with themes for sites and documents:

http://www.colourlovers.com/ http://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

After some googleing I think that the red in the crest is as follows: Red = C: 0 M: 95 Y: 100 K: 0.

Not entirely sure what that means, but there you go. I also found this: http://www.colourlovers.com/color/782221/Manchester_United which seems to be the colour of the top bar on this subreddit.

Edit: Also found this which is called Red Devil, which might have something to do with United. http://encycolorpedia.com/860111

That has actually changed!

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/21/the-new-colors-of-us-money

Each denomination is now a different hue. Crazy stuff happening across the pond. Maybe next we'll have a black president!

Ok, this site is all about websites, but it has a lot of cool designs and interestting elements.

This one has websites and other graphic design components from different applications and programs.

This one has a ton of color palettes that work well together.

Sorry these are all kinda web design centric if that's not what you're going for.

The color choice is poor, resulting in strong clashing colors. It's like a flag or dress uniform, which is good for making a visual impact but poor for reading.

Generally you should use a web palette such as here or any of the million other sites that offer this service. These are well tested schemes that are known to work, with sufficient random variation that you get a unique style.

Your layout is also very dense (compact) giving it a 'wall of text' feel. Especially on mobile, the image headings often run into the body text.

There's a good presentation on web design for non designers here. It's a technical presentation aimed at software developers (but there is no code) so might be a little boring, but it does the job. :-)

Understand the basics of the color wheel. From here, you will understand concepts like primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Next come concepts like using complimentary colors and doing monochromatic color schemes.

Once you get a basic structure for this, you can understand swatches and color pallettes. Pantone also does a great job of doing awesome color stories and explaining how these things work in places outside of just design

Agree with ecnepsnai, except I would argue that theory (that dry site about generic color theory) is not important at first. Stick to imitating—this is the fastest path to growth in the beginning. Look at palette examples from ColourLovers and find designers you like on Dribbble. Imitate them.

Yes, eventually, you’ll hit a wall unless you understand what and why you’re doing it. That is theory, and will be invaluable one day. But if you try to hang your hat of theory upon your non-existent hat rack of experience, it’ll just fall to the floor. Have fun at first; learn as you feel the need to!

But that's not the color of Tyrian red, this is more like it.

Tyrian red is combination of dye from sea snails Hexaplex trunculus (purple) and Stramonita haemastoma (red) in an arrangement of 1/3. Both historical recreation and ancient sources point to the color being "dried-blood", dark red and maroon. Coming around #990024 sRGB.

My color scheme!

There is going to be gold in there, too. The bridesmaids dresses are that plum shade, they are going to wear nude shoes and gold accessories. My dress is ivory. The centerpieces/decorations are going to have that sort of sage-green color as an accent along with the plum, which I can also incorporate into the bouquets.

There's no magic formula.

I try to get most of my designing and layout work out of the way in grayscale, on a logo project for example, before tackling color palettes because.. well.. there's no magic formula. :)

These days I usually try to stick to 3-5 base colors on a project. Those are my main colors. Then, if it's an illustration or pixel art, I'll go in and add shadows/highlights. This doubles or triples the number of colors but because the additional colors are based on my main colors it stays harmonious. Make sense? If not, I could provide an example.

I often "borrow" color palettes from things I see that inspire me: food packaging, illustrations, logos.. anything really. I have an "inspiration" folder on my desktop with images from the web that strike me and I'll frequently use them as a starting point. There is nothing wrong with this that I'm aware of. You can borrow heavily from stuff you like but add unique elements and that make it clearly become your very own. It didn't look to me like the Flappy Bird artwork had many (if any) unique elements. Not sure they got in trouble and I'm not a lawyer so if you want to play it uber safe, ask one.

Colourlovers.com is a great website to look at thousands of color palette combinations (for your 3-5 base colors).

Adobe Kuler app is a great way to capture, via your phone, inspirational palettes that you may come across when you're out and about.

Hope that helps.

I have to really be honest with you, friend. I'm not digging the colors, especially the bright neon green, it's kind of tacky in my opinion. There's just something missing from it and i just can't put my finger on it.

I suggest reading up on color theory because I feel that not enough people realize just how important it is. You can have an amazing logo or design, but if the colors don't work it makes the entire piece unsuccessful

Here's a great site i occasionally visit for color ideas: http://www.colourlovers.com/

Came here to ask the same thing. This Blog Suggests The Green Is Wedgewood Green though the example image on that site is too, well, vibrant, IMO. We clearly need someone to bust out a color identifier of some kind next time they visit the park. Anyone wanna do some recon science for us?

EDIT I made a first attempt at ballparking the color based on a Wikipedia photo of the facade for Club 33. Until we get some better research behind this, here is my stab at 2:18 am CDT.

This might sound pointless, but I noticed that they used the most popular color swatch from Colour Lovers.

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/most-loved/all-time/meta

Anyways, posting about something like this is my cue to get some sleep. Goodnight! :P

I started off with 8x8 and Oryx's sprites to learn people shapes from. I worked on that basis for some time, making small adjustments to his sprites, or drawing new ones from scratch.

For Ludum Dare last month, I made three sprites myself at 16x16 scale. They don't look great, but they worked just fine:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/compo2/201083/12174-shot0.png

The only snag here is some people hate pixel art. All I can say is that it's really worth starting here even if you don't like it. The small scope means there's not that many possible combinations of pixels in an 8x8 space. You don't get much choice, which means you focus more on each pixel.

Second thing is to use a palette. Only use six colours. Or twelve. Or two. Just pick one and stick to it. Choose off a site like http://www.colourlovers.com so you get one picked with someone who has a sense of colour (I don't). Things immediately start to look better once this happens.

Get Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug, and learn enough about colour theory (contrast, harmony, saturation, etc.,) to be able to pick nice colour palettes from ColourLovers.com. :)

Way, way too many colors. You should pick a color scheme, and go with it (try this site for some ideas).
Tone it down with the fonts, particularly when you're using small letters. For headers, you can use a special font to make things look nice, but when you get down to the main body of text, you're gonna want to use a plainer font.
I'd advise against using a photograph for the background. It would really go better maybe as a header along the top. If you're trying to read text over a photo background, it makes things difficult.
The Hogwarts crest is nice, but it's throwing off the justification/balance of the entire page. I'd chuck it, or place it somewhere else.

Edit: Also, chuck the Buckbeak photo. Photos on top of photos reminds me of sites made in the 90s. :P

I am living with fibromyalgia. On a good day my pain is at a 5 out of 10, but most of the time I am at a 7 not moving and an 8.5 standing or walking. I know exactly how you feel. There are days I wish for my old life back.

A great way I have found to distract myself and pull myself out of the vicious pain cycle can be to help others from my laptop computer.

If you understand twitter you can answer user questions by searching for users that use #140help.
Then there is http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ where you can help classify pictures from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. All you do is answer some pretty basic questions, so even if you don't know anything about space you can still help.
Also, if you enjoy art and graphic design then http://www.colourlovers.com/ is a great place to design patterns, color other peoples patterns, and share them with the community there.

I really hope that these ideas or the other ones shared on this thread help. I know that being in pain day after day can seem hopeless, but hang in there.

There's also the slightly more community-focused COLOURlovers which, IIRC, Kuler was meant as a direct response/competitor to. You can take a look at, for example, the "most loved" user-created palettes of the week.

Nice one, these isometric designs are a great place to start out. I would consider light sources in the room. I've seen really nice work done with the window providing light to the room. Maybe consider how the room is lit according to the lights? Like this is lit but where is the source other than the lava lamp? For example you could do a relatively dark room with just the lava lamp and maybe some fairy lights or something, but show where it's coming from. I would also consider the scale of the objects in the room. There's quite a lot of space. Maybe take rough measurements of your room and try to re create it? Lastly I would think more about your colours. Try to get a pallette that works together. This site is relatively useful for just getting thinking about pallettes: http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/most-loved/all-time/meta

I would highly recommend that you change the color scheme. From a thematic point of view, the purple and green don't really fit in at all. However, I would still try to incorporate some gradient like you have here.

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes should give you a good sense of what colors can go together (personally used this for my graphic design stuff).

And I would consider removing the hexagons on the borders as well because

a) the colors mismatch with the adjacent hexagons (adjacent as in horizontally adjacent)

b) it takes away from the overall hexagon-style of the design by having trapezoids

I appreciate the hard work that you've put in so far, but there's still a long way to go. Best of luck :)

Maybe consider a palette instead of just two colors? I used this site to make a palette of 5 colors for our wedding. I think you could easily create a palette with a nice pale pink, light minty green, slightly darker mossy green, and some blue if you play around a bit.

Okay here are my thoughts.
Your venue is rustic. So bright colors or jewel tones like peacock blue are probably going to clash with the natural, soft colors of your surroundings. A compromise would be to use those colors in a more muted way.

My first pick would be sage, mocha, and cream. This will allow you to use more greenery (even native plants!) as a nod to your outdoorsy-ness. Using more greenery can also save money on floral arrangements, and if green is one of your colors, that will look deliberate, not cheap. Sage green flatters almost every skin tone. With green you could also have hiking themed accents, and they won't feel out of place. I'm imagining two sets of boot prints on your programs, maybe your escort cards are pinned to a tree branch... I could go on!).
My second pick would be sky blue, taupe, charcoal, and white. It's cooler and less woodsy. You'd be free to use silver as accents here and there, without clashing with the venue.
Both schemes go with your white chairs, white linens, and white lights.

After reading about this mythical dress (and having a couple of glasses of wine), I figured I'd do some very sophisticated analysis.

I took the RGB color of each pixel within a large swath of the dress (left panel), and then plotted it up in 3D RGB space (middle panels), compared to 120 Crayola crayon colors (RGB codes from here). For each dress pixel, I found the closest Crayola color - where "closest" is in terms of the pythagorean distance in RGB space between the dress pixel color and the Crayola colors. The final panel (right) is a histogram showing the (normalized) number of pixels associated with each Crayola color.

TLDR: if you wanted to draw the dress with crayons, you'd need egg plant, outer space, some purples, and shadow.

Analysis and plotting done in MATLAB.

Static Imgur screenshot

Here is how this works:

Minima Live Wallpaper - I created a custom theme using this pallete

Using a live wallpaper with parallax scrolling gives a very cool effect.

On top of this, everything else is done in Zooper.

To achieve the look of a transparent floating in Z-space, I layered a rectangle with a drop shadow, then another rectangle on top with the blending mode set to XOR.

This lets the rectangle be completely transparent while appearing to float on top of the screen.

All the text is dynamic, which results in:

displaying good morning/good afternoon/good evening depending on time of day

I created a custom temperature scale [ < 20 = tundra, < 32 = frigid, < 40 = cold, < 55 = chilly, else = cool ]

Obviously, this will need to be updated for when Winter is over.

I like the forms and shapes, but don't like the contrasts and colors. I would suggest higher contrasts for borders and maybe color palette share sites are an inspiration:

http://www.colourlovers.com/ http://www.colorcombos.com/

or maybe this tutorial on colors in pixel art http://files.byondhome.com/TheMonkeyDidIt/shading1.html

You should find a good colour palette (http://www.colourlovers.com/) and remake this thing with some pretty colours. I agree with everything said so far basically, this looks like its a design school homework assignment rather than something that is targeting kids. Colours will help.

Ha not quite, luckily it only happens for certain shades of red and green, for me at least. I can normally differentiate between the two, I know what colour a traffic light is showing for instance, as those colours have been made to be very distinct. I honestly can't tell if the minimap icons in BF3 are yellow, orange or light green as the are all a really light, yellowish shade of whatever they are supposed to be.

Look at this image, to you the sets of bars probably look quite different. To me however they look almost identical, the one on the left looks ever so slightly lighter and pinker but the difference is barely noticeable.

I took the image from this site which has examples of other colourblind types as well. Though most of the artwork and website examples at the top of the page either don't really reflect my deficiency so much or they are exaggerated.

The colors are kind of clashing, since the background is a stark black with the logo, title bar and content box being a very bright and imposing color. If you de-saturate the colors a little bit, it takes out a lot of the initial eye-confusion. Basically you'll want there to be one consistent color theme of 3-4 "cooperative" individual hues, as you would find at ColourLovers. Here's an example of adjusting the one you have:

http://i.imgur.com/Q1ohm.jpg

The replacement logo is terrible, ignore that, just wanted something in there to show the contrast difference more effectively. Grey on black / white rarely works well, see if you can find a way to make the text area black on white and add in splashes of color with the elements inside, e.g. subtle images for horizontal rules and dividers.

Lastly, I had a bit of a hard time figuring out what the site is about. If there was a "shirts, art & more" thing in either the logo (as a smaller sub-text) or prominently on the page, it would make it easier on visitors just stopping by without background knowledge.

Loads quickly from here (NY). Check from other PCs on different ISP and if you still notice a problem, check with your webhost.

Your font sizes are way too big and bold, its kinda obnoxious. Tone it down a bit, here is some inspiration :

http://ilovetypography.com/2007/09/19/15-excellent-examples-of-web-typography/

Colors are understandable given the business, but still very 'in your face'. Play with your palette a bit, it doesn't need to be so obvious :

http://www.colourlovers.com/

Starbucks color palette: http://www.color-hex.com/color-palette/8208

Taco Bell color palette: http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/24249/Taco_Bell

I need to find more color palettes! This is interesting. :)

An easy way to make graphics a bit better would be to use a controlled harmonious palette. You can use different colour schemes in different levels, but in each one limit the use of colours to one palette.

Here are a few websites that will help: https://coolors.co/ http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes http://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/

We're going with a bright yellow, a pale yellow, a brick red, a light blue, and a teal for our palette, which is inspired by the color palettes in Wes Anderson's films. The red and yellows also match the colors of our venue (red brick, pale yellow walls).

I like the Colour Lovers site a lot because there's tons of palette to search through. (I created our palette by searching for "Wes Anderson" and mixing and matching the colors I found in those palettes.)

Nope. Urea is colorless. Once outside the body it typically degrades via water into bicarbonate and ammonium ions, also colorless. The ammonia/ammonium may then be further oxidized by certain bacteria into nitrate and nitrite ions, also colorless, the later is a slow process.

The color in sweat and urine is a result of Bile Pigments which are breakdown products of hemoglobin and other similar proteins. The most common is Urobilin.

Awesome! Also wanted to link something about color harmony, but This video's pretty good!. I usually cheat and browse http://www.colourlovers.com/ for inspiration a lot, though.

Now she's caught a Ledyba(ba), 31E.

Which can mean an internment/resettlement specialist in the Army, or this color of blue. Probably an interment/resettlement specialist in the army that IS this color of blue.

Someone else will have to keep track of the rest of Baba's catches; I'm going to be busy having a life.

I don't like the standard theme for PowerPoint because it uses Calibri and I don't like the colors. Also, using the standard layout and color theme may come across as lazy? Like, you spent all this time preparing and you just used the normal template? That may not be a real issue,but it's something I worry about. Also, I just don't like the way the standard layout looks.

A year ago or so, I spent a day once and changed it to how I wanted it to look: Times New Roman headings on a green rounded rectangle, Arial slide font, and the slide number in a small green box on the bottom right. I wanted green because that is my favorite color. Now I know when I go to start prepping slides that they will always look the same and I won't need to spend an hour playing with colors and fonts.

. There's a couple websites, like this one that let you browse color palettes so you can make your slides look pretty.

This is probably not the best subreddit to ask this question (and I'm certainly not the best person to answer it), but anyways:

The aliasing on that hand is a bit distracting (do you have a vector version of that?)
The black controller outline in a dark background look bad. Maybe you could try some white or some color?
The gradient and the glow make the logo look like it's from an 1999 flash website. I would recommend you to go with the current flat design trend (I find it's actually easier to make something look good this way).

Also, if you need some help picking colors, you can already find some color palettes in COLOURlovers

What size will this thumbnail live on youtube? Will it be that big?

I think for no formal graphic design experience this is decent though some things that could make this better would be to lose the outerglow behind the hands holding the pistols. It might seem like a nice way to make them pop but it's not very appeasing. Try to find another way to make it pop if you think it blends in with the background too much like lighting the background with dodge or just brushing white behind the pistols ever so slightly.

I think the main thing I think that this could use to make it better is a better color palette. That mint green triangle at the top, the lime-ish yellow and the white don't jive together too great. You can try these sites and find a nice combination that doesn't clash so hard.

Kuler Colourlovers

Keep up the designing.

First of -: Change those fonts. Download free to use and free to publish web fonts and have some web-safe fonts as fallback. Check out this MIT website for some web-safe fonts.

I would like to see some graphics. Personally I hate when people keep their navigation to the left. You could just code a simple button with your JavaScript library of liking and make a bar that toggles underneath the header or keep it to the right.

The colors are a bit dull. Check out COLOURLOVERS.

Why would you have the 'Menu' title, and why do you wrap it in a <div> tag? You actually don't have to specify that it is a menu, it is very obvious.

And you create your own tags?! I don't think you should EVER do that. Create <div>'s with different classes if you don't know what the tag should be. In HTML5 we have classes for: <header>, <nav> etc. No need to create your own.

The menu actions glitch out sometimes but I don't think that is your fault, seems like you are using a library for that. The text on the different pages look good to me. You might add some flair like bold and italic but that is your choice.

If this is made from scratch then I think you need to do some heavy re-work on your website. If you are interested you can send me a message or reply if you want help or some general guidelines.

Sorry if I seem a bit harsh, but I just want you to create the best content that you are capable of doing!

Here is the colorhex pallete for Tesla. I would recommend the following:

Visited links - #554F4A (Not so dark grey).
Submitter - #A7241C (Forest of light) with white font. Moderator - #300A07 (No name) with white font.
Upvote - #A7241C (Forest of light). Downvote - #000000 (Black)
Sticky posts - #510E0E (Red) with #DBD8D0 (ClaraboyaThreeby) shadow

Flair can be a range of topics, but a few I can think of are Breaking News, Interviews, Test Drives/Product Reviews, Hardware/Software Upgrades, and Rumors.

Try this http://www.colourlovers.com/ and this https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ For theory have a look at this http://polymathprogrammer.com/2008/08/04/basic-colour-theory-for-programmers/

Remove the gradients, or make them more subtle. You don't have to remove the black lines, but at least change them to darker versions of the main colors, like for the football. The color scheme is too saturated and unnatural. Using the color guides panel in Illustrator to find colors that will work better together is helpful. I put together a color lovers palette for you

All the colors are in high contrast with each other, and they don't seem to fit very well together. Here is a color palette I put together, assuming the light blue as your dominate color. The website is good for finding colors as well. --- As for making the triangle stand out, part of the problem is the high contrast colors stealing attention. Also the image is very busy, so it obviously doesn't have a simple focal point. On top of that, nothing is leading my eye to the center. Outlining the triangle would help make it pop and give it more contrast, but again, I think mostly the problem is everything else is grabbing your attention.

When the Eiffel Tower was first built Gustave Eiffel those to paint it red. After the years the color has changed from red to yellow and now a brownish color. Another thing to keep in mind is the lighting. The tower is covered in lights and there are huge spotlights that can make the tower any color. Source: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/01/24/landmark-color-the-eiffel-towers-true-hues Thanks to /u/mareenah for providing it.

This technique is very helpful for choosing colors from a photo. Design-seeds and Colourlovers are also fantastic for pre-chosen palettes, and I typically pick and choose from colors and palletes depending on what emotion I want to convey. Otherwise, in general, there are lots of guides to learning about color theory and color psychology that you can find by googling :)

I generally gravitate toward cool colors as well. My first impression is that it's sort of 70's. I would say that it needs something else to really push it toward "autumn". Maybe a burgundy? I think cream sounds like a nice addition as well. Mainly it seems like it needs contrast.

A few palettes that might inspire you:
french roast
Eat some leaves
autumn forest

I'm not sure if you've seen the site before, but http://www.colourlovers.com/ is a great place to browse when trying to think about color schemes.

Edit: Remember that color schemes are covered under copyright law in theory (though I'm not sure I've heard of anyone prosecuting there).

Art and Makeup! Yesssss. I would totally wear a palette based on any Sofonisba Anguissola painting. amirite.

p.s. http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06/20/color-inspiration-from-the-masters-of-painting

We've been playing with palettes and are almost settled on ours on ColourLovers. I specifically like their PhotoCopa tool as well. It lets you pick colors out of photos which is super cool if you've found images that are color-inspiring for you.

I also just noticed that they have a specific wedding section :P

I also second Design Seeds.

EDIT: I was just playing with the Copaso tool on ColourLovers too. It also lets you pick from a photo, but you can pixelate it to make it a little easier. I also noticed that if you click an individual color in a palette (after it's been published) there's a tool to find stock photos that contain that color.

> It's random. :P

You should consider using Colour Lovers top voted color schemes! (If you haven't been to that site, you should. It's great for getting color schemes and patterns that look striking.)

You can just dump a JSON of the top 100 or so, copy & paste that into an included file, and include those as options, probably not too hard. (the "right way" would be to use their API but that's prolly too much for now)

http://www.colourlovers.com/

Different colours. Something that's a warm autumn-y tone—there's a lot of variation here. I think something like this (a warm beige-yellowy tone) would complement your shoes and dress well, but you could also go after the colour of the dots in the dress?

A few incredibly basic design critiques:

The tracking on your header is really loose - normally this wouldn't be an issue, but with the full stop it becomes more noticeable.

The brown you're using for spot colour in the twitter/facebook/email icons doesn't quite stand out enough. Maybe go with one of these? It'd help pop (a la Perviking's critique).

Your buttons are a bit drab; PremiumPixels has some awesome freebies you might be able to look at for inspiration/use.

Also, don't be afraid to use different fonts. I'd personally swap the Graublau in your header for something a bit bolder - maybe League Gothic?

I've got to rush off, unfortunately, but I hope that helps some.

My suggestion, check out sites like colourlovers.com or utilize your color guides panel to find complementary color schemes. As for layout a good little reference guide to start with is the HOW/Krause 'Layout Index' They make some other really handy quick-reference guides as well. Here is a small, brief guide on the basic principles of design.

Nothing is wrong with the design ...color however...here are the most powerful colors in the world, I hope this helps! http://www.colourlovers.com/business/blog/2010/09/15/the-most-powerful-colors-in-the-world

Hi. I do game dev portfolio sites a lot. Some tips for you:

Pictures/visuals. Right now your site is a wall of black text on a white background - nothing is more of a turnoff than being asked to read a wall of text with no visuals present. Even though there's a link to the App store for Gaslight, add some pretty screenshots in under the title, please! ditto with Zorro. On that note, you may want to pick a color scheme for your site that's not black and white. It doesn't have to be some insane color scheme but something a little more eye catching helps keep people interested in looking at your site. I like Color Lovers (http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/most-loved/all-time/meta) for color palettes that work well.
Having a .pdf resume is really helpful. As someone else mentioned here, the "roll out" style of resume is a pain to go through.

Many employers spend only a minute or two on each resume they look at, since their HR departments have hundreds (or thousands) to go through each time a position opens up. Go through each page and make sure it's immediately eye catching in some way. It doesn't need to be drastic or over the top, but it -should- make the user want to spend time reading all of the content you've put down.

You have strong experience and strong education here, and your resume speaks for itself - however, if your site isn't particularly "grabbing", then it's difficult to impart your experience to the viewer.

I disagree with the comment about changing the chair and the bookshelf. I have a chair (almost) exactly like it, and mid-century modern is really "in" right now.

You need to develop a color palette you want (presumably based off the chair) for this space, for the lamp shade and framed art (see comments below).

What you're dealing with seems to be a problem of proportion. The record/framed art is problematic because it leaves so much white space that the wall feels unfinished. You can "fix" this in a variety of ways...wall paper with a nice pattern (though, if you're in an apartment, most landlords frown upon this), filling up the wall with a variety of pictures so it looks more eclectic, or simply two poster sized pieces of framed art (one over the chair, one over the bookcase). The one over the chair may look better if it is larger, but it may not. Use your eye.

Whoever said a different lampshade is completely correct. I love the base of the lamp, but the lampshade makes me cringe. Use your color palette to find something acceptable in color and envision what you might like (what type of shape? fringe tassles?) as well as what will give off appropriate light.

Personally, I'm not a HUGE fan of combining the decanter/glasses with the bookshelf, but this isn't my space. If you want to keep it, i might suggest shelves-on-shelves. I would put the glasses under one of the shelves, and then put the decanter and mixer on top. This way, you make a somewhat symmetrical pattern, and it looks more intentional, rather than just taking up space.

The overall layout "works" you need to change the cursor to the finger thingy when ppl are about to click; however, the colors are horrendous. go to color lovers and pick a palate. Also pick better fonts. You can do a lot of the stuff you did with AJAX.

If you want to find some good color schemes try some of these: http://www.colourlovers.com/ http://kuler.adobe.com http://colorschemedesigner.com/

To me this thing looks like a hallway. Maybe add some railings and cables on the ground. When I do any modeling I try and think of geometry to add that would create some cool shadows.

You should be able to make cables easily with bezier curves.

First, the M/F tabs at the top of /r/gonewild is a Reddit Enhancement Suite feature. It can't be done with CSS.

Second, your CSS:

a.title[href*="/friendship"]{ color: #107FC9 !important; }

a.title[href*="/chat"]{ color: #8FBE00 !important; }

a.title[href*="/activities"]{ color: #E0B400 !important; }

a.title[href*="/group"]{ color: #FA6900 !important; }

a.title[href*="/relations"]{ color: #7400F0 !important; }

a.title[href*="/relationship"]{ color: #CC333F !important; }

I didn't spend much time finding the colours. I suggest looking around on COLOURlovers or using a colour picker like this one to find more optimal colours. Simply replace the ones in the CSS with the hex value of your choice.

Usage note: The keyword MUST be at the beginning of the post title when the user submits their post. "[Friendship] Looking for friends in McMurdo" or "Friendship - Any train model hobbyists out there?" will both be styled like 'Friendship' posts, but "Looking for friendship" will not be.

Also, if you reorder the rules (I don't see why you would need to, but just in case) make sure the relations rule is before the relationship rule, or else the relations rule will override the relationship rule.

Well the real question is do you have a logo yet? If you have one, you can do business card design yourself and just put your info and your logo on the card is a semi-aesthetic way. I've found that since everyone keeps contact information digitally these days, the design of business cards doesn't really matter.

Logo design is important however, as it represents your company pretty much everywhere. You could probably get a half-decent one for free by posting a request on a site with some nice people (i.e. this one). You're not guaranteed a great one but it might be good enough. If you're going to pay for one, don't pay more than a few hundred bucks. And get a ton of different options as well.

Choosing your logo color is probably the most important part unless its going to be super creative, so here are some resources on that: Related resource 1 Related resource 2

Hope that helps!

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/21/the-new-colors-of-us-money/

The photos are not as colorful as the actual money. The 10s are really really pink.

Oh and they use green because it holds color better than any other ink. No clue why.

If they don't already know.. Kuler.Adobe.com is the shit when it comes to color palletes. And there's also Colorlovers.com, which has a pretty nifty section for magazine color trends.

Kuler should be replaced with Colour Lovers (see here).

Also, CSS Zen Garden! I know you all know it exists, why does no one mention it on reddit when these types of threads come up?

I've been checking out these three a fair bit in the new year

http://www.colourlovers.com/

http://www.gigposters.com/

http://lovelypackage.com/

Also love Smashing mag and any of the envato sites/blogs

edit: formatting (i suck)

Facebook:

You have the makings of a good facebook page. The content that you are posting really impacts me and resonates with the audience. Keep it up!

For this site, people care less about spending and more about helping the elephants, which is why you should replace/remove $100 shipping on the top banner with something like "10% of all sales are going to Save the Elephants," (the goodwill effect)

Make sure that its the first thing they see when they come in on the site, mention it on the slider and throughout the site. Create a page about the organization and use that as the "learn more link" if you decide to go with the top banner/slider idea change.

Last note: you need a colour scheme.

You're site is not very memorable. One of the easiest ways to make it memorable is to introduce color.

Hello. Fullstack developer here in my spare time. I tend to find most of my palettes via services such as Coolers, Colour Lovers, Adobe Colour Generator and so on. Try a few of these to see what works best but please remember these are screen based colours, you need to lighten them considerably for real world use as they will appear darker off screen.

Colourlovers is some sort of social network to share color palettes. I use it a lot when i have to do a design from scratch.

I generally try to choose a palette with the following features :

a neutral color for background
a color that contrasts with the bg but not too aggressively (used as my primary color)
an agressively contrasting color (for the highlights)
a toned down version of the primary for the side-notes and less emphasized content.

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