There are so many ways to choose colours, for packaging or websites or whatever. The Red Queen Color Theory covers a few [via eatonweb].
Previous to designing (this revision of) this 'site, I'd been locked into the idea of colour "chords" (as I called them) or triads for a long time; it was quite constraining, but I couldn't think of any other ways to choose. Simply put, it's two similar colours and a constrasting one which "work" together. Once I had the idea in my head I couldn't shift it. When it came to redesigning this page, everyone was using blue, orange and grey and I wanted to move away from that. I started with obnoxious colours, brown and red mainly, and worked from there. It's much more of a challenge to take horrible colours and make something that looks okay. I think it kinda worked (many people really hate the scheme, but that's a good thing. I don't want to please everyone), but I've still not managed to completely escape the triad concept.
There are so many ways to choose colours, for packaging or websites or whatever. The Red Queen Color Theory covers a few [via eatonweb].
Previous to designing (this revision of) this 'site, I'd been locked into the idea of colour "chords" (as I called them) or triads for a long time; it was quite constraining, but I couldn't think of any other ways to choose. Simply put, it's two similar colours and a constrasting one which "work" together. Once I had the idea in my head I couldn't shift it. When it came to redesigning this page, everyone was using blue, orange and grey and I wanted to move away from that. I started with obnoxious colours, brown and red mainly, and worked from there. It's much more of a challenge to take horrible colours and make something that looks okay. I think it kinda worked (many people really hate the scheme, but that's a good thing. I don't want to please everyone), but I've still not managed to completely escape the triad concept.