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http://coolors.co/ to give you a color scheme to work from, fontpair.co to get fonts that work well together, and adding a little padding to both of your main containers on the site would go a long way.

Other than that, take a look at other chat apps and see what common UI theme they have that yours doesn't (especially the "send a message" button).

Coolors is a good site for choosing colour palettes. User generated swatches that have 5 in each, just keep pressing spacebar until you come across ones that you like. If you register an account you can save the swatches that you like.

Nice idea!

• When the page loads, focus the cursor in the search field so it's possible to start typing right away without clicking on it
• make the search field bigger
• Implement autocomplete to suggest results while typing a book name
• On the results page remove the labels and unnecessary data to reduce clutter. Just show "Book name / Author name" in a bigger font and "Number of pages / Number of words" below it. No need to display language, publish date and price.
• Add a big button to every item with an actionable text such as "Find out" and a small text above the button "How long will it take you to read it?"
• Add a price comparison to the book page from several other sites besides amazon. You'll also have affiliate links on multiple sites this way.
• Add the title of the book to the url of the book page for SEO
• pick better colors using http://coolors.co/
• add more padding
• implement bigtrue22's advice for hours:minutes

Btw, the kindle app shows you how much time you have left in the current chapter and in the book (doesn't mean anything, just thought you'd like to know)

Good luck!

I'm going to be critical:

Functionality:

• You don't need the 'learn more' boxes, but you do need to be able to click on their respective headlines ('How to Adopt') etc.
• In smaller windows, the left hand link images slide under the browser border, which can make them hard to see, nevermind aesthetically unpleasing.
• Your visitors shouldn't have to dig for a link for your current adoptables. This should be one of your primary links. Visitors want to see what you have to offer, before finding out how to get one (or two or ... six).

Aesthetics:

• That colour scheme. It is overwhelming. It detracts from the pictures of the adorable rats. Are you constrained to this colour scheme by the Sanctuary? Use bold colours minimally (borders/dividers) and use a pale pastelle version of those same colours for large divs. If you're not constrained to that palette, pick one of your colours, toss it in something like coolors.co, and browse for a less jarring combination.
• Your headline ('How to adopt', etc.) boxes. They have weird borders and are inconsistently sized. The black on deep purple is uncomfortable.
• The left side link panel. All these images conflict with each other. You have different sizes, strange cropping, and inexplicable gaps. There doesn't appear to be a lot of forethought in the organization of this panel, and it leaves the viewer hesitant about what they want to select.
• Your footer seems really out of place - it doesn't align with any of the other elements of your page, and occupies more vertical space than it requires.

I love the interactive gallery. I hope you take my comments in the spirit that they are given, to help JARRS and their rats and their clients get the best experience possible out of their website.

My background is similar to yours and I'm still learning, but here are some tools that might help

• coolors.co

You can use this to create palettes so you can see what colors work together.

• Look for typographical twins or font pairing.

Google those terms and figure out what works together and what doesn't.

you can use wordmark.it to look at the fonts available on your computer.

Hope this helps!

Really enjoyed playing through this it really reminded me of those lunar lander games, I would just say that personally I found the green environment colour a bit too striking, I use coolours to find colour schemes.

Came here to suggest creative market freebies but it has already been mentioned. I will add that I honestly download just about everything they offer each week. There have been plenty of times when something comes in handy when I never thought it would.

Other suggestions:

Lost Type - Nice quality fonts (typically free for personal use).

Coolors.co - Color palette generator.

Thirty Logos Challenge Don't know what kind of design you're into but this is a challenge that I'm slowly working through in an effort to exercise my logo design muscles. There is also a similar UI design challenge.

Yea I thought that too. Here are a few tips tho:

• Use a color scheme, you can generate one randomly at http://coolors.co

• Put everything in one page and show/hide them instead of reloading the entire page.

• Don't use tables. Use divs with a table layout and style it.

• hr's are not a good idea, use shadows like this "box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.12), 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.24);"

• Using full light or full dark themes are better. When background is colorful and the text isn't colored acordingly, it is hard to read.

Enjoy your journey with CSS (you probably will not.)

First off the books aren't vertically centered with the image of the wood. Personally I don't like the image and would use something else (preferably something more inviting). The black red and white color pallete also is not inviting. I like using this to get an idea of colors that work well together http://coolors.co/app/c9ddff-ecb0e1-de6c83-c1aac0-2cf6b3

Thanks for your work, dClauzel, this is a really good development for /r/Europe! To make it even more useful, I suggest the following:

• Have two tags for each post, one indicating the topic (news, culture etc) and another indicating the geographic scope (Ireland, France, Russia, EU etc.). Having one tag which is European Union and another which is News, for example, doesn't make a lot of sense - what to do with news of the EU?
• Make each tag smaller. It's not necesassary to spell out the name of the tag by each post. A news article about Germany could for example have something like [N] [DE] in front of it. This makes things a lot less cluttered.
• Think about a comprehensive colour scheme for /r/Europe, including the tag colours. It doesn't need to be a lot of work, you could use something like http://coolors.co/ to help.

Is that Lobster font? I'm pretty sure it is. Tends to be the default filler script font I use when building sites. I would try to find a different font. It doesn't sit well with me for this project, also tobaccgo.com should be all one font.

The smoke coming from the vapes/text is pixelated, that should be recreated in illustrator so it's scaleable.

I dislike that the website text is multiple colors. I would find a color scheme and stick to it, because right now it looks like you don't really have a defined colour pallette. I use http://coolors.co/

I used to use the one you posted for generic colours, and then I moved to materialui.co/colors. For colour palette creation/inspiration/saving I use Coolors, you can use it without signing in but to save schemes etc you need to register an account.

As an alternative to kuler, you have http://coolors.co which has quickly become a favourite of mine. Usually I will pick some colors from the logo and go from there. If they don't have a logo, I do a quick google image search on other companies in the same field to have an idea of what people associate with what they do.

This might help you, plug in your main color and it generates color palettes for you. It's been used in pretty much every project I've worked on since a reddit user made it (i think).

Also, your font choices look weird. The site renders very strangely and there's not much hierarchy anywhere. Not a bad start though, just needs some color and typography work.

Thank you so much!

You could see what other people have done with their designs and use that as inspiration. Or you could look up some random color palettes on http://coolors.co and see if anything calls to you.

Good luck! c:

I'm sorry but i dont understand what u mean by a gradient tutorial... I think playing around with them on your own would give great results.

And if you wanna choose some pre made gradients i would recommend: - Coolors - CssGradients - UIGradient

coolors.co

Automatically generates colours that go well together. You can lock in which ones you like and generate more that go well with those too.

Useful for everything art related. I use it for colouring Blender models.

The color pallet you chose it's not very good imo, I suggest you go to coolors.co and start playing around with random color pallets. Once you land on a color you like you can lock it so all other pallets are generated to match with that color

Thank you! It took me many weeks to learn how to make such appealing colors. The first palettes for Zig Zag were taken from online resources like Coolors or Color Me Curious, then I learned some theory and wrote my own generator, and playing with that eventually made me confident enough to hand-pick colors.

Looking good! I like to use coolors.co when I wanna play around with color schemes. Don't skip the tutorial or it won't make any sense thanks to their minimal UI and keyboard shortcut functionality.

Also, I just ran across this on dribbble that has a nice orange/green color scheme going on if that's something you're still after.

I like the idea of the mandala with the 4th one. You definitely need to simplify x 100, though. In addition to the mandala, you're also trying to cram a faux Brahmic script font into there, and you're using way too many colors and effects. You need to go with ONE idea that says Hindu, instead of the many you're trying here with each one.

• Go with ONE, preferably simple font. I think a clean and modern sans serif would fit quite nicely, and would provide a good contrast to the intricate design of the mandala. Think Futura, Helvetica, or Fira Sans.. You could center the actual brahmic script above it.
• Reduce it to ONE or TWO FLAT colors, preferably something complimentary. Browse or create color schemes with something like the tool coolors or something similar. For instance, with this Mandala, you could easily make the mandala one color, and then have the text cutout in white, making almost like a crest. That makes it easier and better for things like t-shirts and other printing efforts.

Remember: Use ONE idea and run with that. And when in doubt, simplify. Good luck, and I'm interested to see what the revised logo looks like!

It is starting to look more like a dove than an owl. too much detail lost, I liked it better without the stroke... just not enough contrast. Is there a reason for the vin diagram circles? If not I would try it with just 1 circle.

The typography needs some work. some of the shapes need to be merged so the gradient is not jarring (I'm looking at the W, t, and w in particular) It looks hand drawn without the expertise to look hand lettered If that makes sense. There are some kerning issues with the te and wl and inconsistent line height and line angles. Your brush is also making some poor line weight issues where the thin/thinck parts meet (probably a name for that but not sure what it is.)

I would look up some tutorials on how to hand letter, or just pick a nice font to use.

something like this might help with your color palette.

I want a gold shower. Here is my critique.

Site

Choose better colors. A nice clean and minimalist site goes along way. You need to choose 2 colors that complement each other. 2 fonts that work well together. (Google font pairings for a list of ideas. You will probably want something in the sans-serif category.) For colors I love http://coolors.co

Marketing

Check out /r/digitalnomad. Nomads are great to market it to. Nomads careers heavily rely on the Internet. They want to get setup fast once they reach a country. Not to mention that if you are really good like you say you are, you will be referred. It's a small community.

Step outside of Reddit. Join some nomads forums. Don't push your product, but be knowledgeable.

The rectangles signify both books and digital media. If you meant the L in regional and not buffalo, I actually completely agree with you. I wasn't part of the team to decide on the logo though, but I worked on the website design.

We do have a greyscale and one colour versions of the design for when CMYK or SPOT can't reproduce. The colour choices are meant to be bold and bright, I don't really see muddy or retro.

Hey! I don't know if this will help, but I used to have a similar problem - I would imagine the colors and they would look great, but when I put them in my design/illustration they seemed all wrong and I couldn't understand why. I wanted a light green, but it still looked... wrong.

Enter:Coolors

I think as long as you have a rough idea of what you like, it'll help you a bunch. Also, find people whose color palettes you like. I love Kali Ciesemier and get inspiration there.

Would love to see these kind of designs with more subtle color scales!

Looks really great, I love the shapes.

I figure coolors would be really cool for that sort of thing.

http://coolors.co/3f7cac-e8f7ee-162521-3c474b-b8c4bb

1. you should find a better color combination. try http://coolors.co for some alternatives.
2. that logo looks like it come out from cheap 'create your logo' website. does that local business has no original logo?
   
3. use better fonts. you can use what populars on [google fonts](www.google.com/fonts).