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Hey everyone, I'm having some troubles gathering a color palette I like. I need 2 for companies my Dad owns and wants developed. Just simple sites with a little info and contact stuff.

I was wondering if anyone has seen any good sites that might have some colors I can draw from, so far the Safety Orange is a little too orange for me taste. Thanks.

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searching digg for computer related things seems to work better than google at times.

http://digg.com/search?s=color+palet...=all&sort=most

here are some from the above search list
http://adampolselli.com/article/hues-to-use-in-2005/
http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk...colour-palette
http://www.colourlovers.com/

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I'm going to suggest that color schemes you like aren't important. Color schemes that the viewer can live with are the key.

First of all, chosen colors should be web-safe. That is, the colors should be reproduced accurately (or very, very closely) by virtually every browser that your audience might use.

Modern systems can produce about lebenty-zillion colors, most of which the human eye cannot distinguish from nearby colors. As a matter of practicalicy, you have less than 256 colors to choose from that are highly likely to produce the effect you desire. When a browser cannot reproduce a non-web-safe color directly it resorts to dithering. Dithering is mainly a no-no.

If you're not into color theory there are many, many sites that will offer you the chance to select a major color, and then provide you with complementary colors that don't clash, but supplement your primary choice.

If you don't know exactly how this works, you might Google color wheels, or complementary colors, or some such.

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I believe the web-safe colour palette to be obsolete, after all 8-bit colour monitors are pretty old now right?

this site, serves as one of the best resources i know for web development:
http://www.alvit.de/handbook/

also whenever i'm not working with a designer, i usually look around:
http://www.designmeltdown.com/
to try and find some inspiration.

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The primary use of the web-safe palette is not because machines aren't capable of displaying more colors. It's used because all the colors are distinguishable by persons with typical vision characteristics.

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http://www.colourlovers.com/

Edit: Err oops, that was posted already.. sorry.

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Try this page.:)

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Thanks everyone for the sites. Very, very helpful.

Thanks again.

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