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Bob Williams.
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June 6, 2018 at 3:31 pm #21599
Could my fellow forumite’s do me a little favour “Spare 5 Minutes” 🙂 I have been trying to decide a colour combo for one of my own website builds. I keep browsing different colour ranges, I pick one, then the next day I regret it and start again. This has been going on for three month now and I am still indecisive.
I would like to know if people prefer a website with say Pastels modern looks, Dark corporate looks, Bright and shocking colours, funky etc….
Here is a link to some colour combos and I would like to know what peoples preferred colours are that whill not turn you away from a website as soon as you look it. I know a lot depends on the business type but just in general will do.
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June 6, 2018 at 3:47 pm #21601Not very helpful, but I’ll give you a preference list:
1: 24
2: 35
3: 30
4: 63
5: 66
I think I may have different preferences depending how the colours are used i.e the colour used for the various window decorations.
June 6, 2018 at 4:06 pm #21603Hope that we are not going back to the old MM pastel on pastel issues. White on light blue (as per Sky Q) is a definite ‘No No’ for me – surely should you not be looking at not modern, corporate etc. etc but a website that can be read by all users easily?
Just a suggestion.
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June 6, 2018 at 4:15 pm #21604As I said it’s my project, not a forumite change.
Thank’s ED.
Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!
June 6, 2018 at 6:07 pm #21606I think it depends on the theme of the website. Ice blue and gray wouldn’t be appropriate for a summer sun fun site for example.
Ask Debbie, she’s good at these things…
June 6, 2018 at 7:45 pm #21607I’ll add to my reply. I personally hate ‘in your face’ schemes such as #96. I find them jarring and irritating. For my taste bright reds should only be used for warnings or ‘do not use’ notices.
June 6, 2018 at 7:56 pm #21608@edps was that a cheeky dig at my splash of England team red round here 🙂 But no, I am not a big fan of loud reds and shocking blues. I keep going back and trying .25 but then I think is it to dull and then I go on the hunt again.
Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!
June 6, 2018 at 8:16 pm #21609I’ve had a look and I’m torn between a few, well lots. The kind of thing I’ll never make my mind up about. No good to you, sorry about that.
Just have a red in there somewhere. ?
June 6, 2018 at 11:48 pm #21614Used to design & print Business Stationery, Entertainment Packs for East Coast resort entertainers and Independent/Private School Prospectuses, Posters, leaflets, you name it. Unfortunately Lee, I never found one theme that suited all and I never got to designing websites, retired too soon. There is no simple answer, but looking at it from paper & card prints, I would classify according to customer suitability from these I picked out:
13: As it says, Classy. I would have used it for a high-fee school which appreciated that.
16: IMPACT! A fairly successful entertainer with a reputation, or one just starting out. I always checked out their shows first and made a choice based on 3 visits to venues. This would have been my No.1 choice for this.
21: No.2 Impact, an entertainer I was a bit doubtful about, but might improve.
62: Classy. Either a good school, or the “Sinatra” type of entertainer, maybe the occasional Swing/Jazz Band.
73: No.3 Impact: might not be here next year. If so, colour choices used in another design with different text, blocks and images.
87: Very Professional and classy. The one school I produced stationery, books and prospectuses for, paid me a healthy sum to buy the copyright and designs, when I retired. They were happy to employ a larger local printer I recommended.
As I say, no simple answer in my case. Consider each customer carefully, check out what they do and think about applications to their business. Totally different applications to my old work I know, but principles are the same.
Hope that helps but doesn’t confuse!
Good luck, Bob.
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I'm out.June 7, 2018 at 9:05 am #21622They are all good in their own right. Personally I always like a darker theme to look at, but then the colour combo is depended on the project or product your selling.
So sadly no help form me.
Though number 8 jumped out as one I didn’t like. Although I only looked down as far as about 25. Before I determined, I wouldn’t have a throng to contribute.
Colour is very personal, what I like, make be terrible to all others and vice versa .
sorry Lee.
June 7, 2018 at 10:31 am #21630Can’t add much to that last, except to say that my choices were all paper-publication based, and agree that colour is personal.
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I'm out.June 7, 2018 at 6:21 pm #21645I prefer blues, but other colours are fine too as long as it’s just different shades of the same colour. A small injection of a different colour is okay as long as it blends with the main theme colour. When there is a mix of colours in a website… I find it distracting and annoying.
I liked: 05, 53, 55, 58, 71, 72, 80, 85
Those were okay: 07, 14, 30, 31, 34, 42, 43, 44, 46, 56, 63
It seems I prefer darker colours.
June 7, 2018 at 11:39 pm #21657Horses for courses: more different preferences.
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