Complementing Colours

[georgerogers]

I need a little advice on what colours to use with my base colour of 0082c3 (blue). I thought about using a grey or black or even going crazy and using a completely contrasting colour. If anyone has any ideas on what colour would be best I would be very grateful.

 

[bigdave]

Find the closest match to your color, then look at the opposite side of the wheel. That range of colors are the complementary colors.

 

[georgerogers]

Never really thought of orange and blue as a good colour combination before, I'm only using the blue as a header and navigation headers so if I use the orange to colour the links and page titles I could work, thank you for your help.

 

[sthomas]

Check out this link: Color Scheme Designer 3

Not only does it give you complimentary colour options (and a few other alternatives) but it also lets you see the colours being used on light and dark website layouts.

 

[Minuteman Press]

Useful tool. Thanks for this - a gem.

 

[CYoung]

Great tool for the colours, thanks! :icon_biggrin:

 

[creatabledesign]

Very cool tool, not come across this one before. Cheers for the link

There is also color lovers:
Color Trends + Palettes :: COLOURlovers

But this is if you are looking for a palette base to start with

 

[georgerogers]

Check out this link: Color Scheme Designer 3

Not only does it give you complimentary colour options (and a few other alternatives) but it also lets you see the colours being used on light and dark website layouts.

Thats a cool little tool usually when I choose two or three colours for a website I think it looks good but it isn't to everyones liking Im sure you guys have the same problem. But you can't please everyone!!

 

[Bonvin]

Another great resource is kuler

It's simlar to the other ones recommeneed, has some nice flexibilty and a breakdown of the values in CMYK, RGB & HEX so it covers print as well as web. It also has the nice feature of being able to save your schemes and download swatches.

This is the one I find myself comming back to use again and again, I find it really helpful.

 

[georgerogers]

Another great resource is kuler

It's simlar to the other ones recommeneed, has some nice flexibilty and a breakdown of the values in CMYK, RGB & HEX so it covers print as well as web. It also has the nice feature of being able to save your schemes and download swatches.

This is the one I find myself comming back to use again and again, I find it really helpful.

I actually have a couple of swatches saved on there from when I first found it, but now they look proper crap. I think I will need to invest some time with these bits of kit to utilise their full potential.