Choosing colours while designing
June 20, 2007 – 6:27 pm
Choosing a group of colours can be a daunting exercise. OK, so there’s some golden rules to follow, like “always choose from the same third of the colour wheel”. Golden rules are made to be broken.
Adobe has a colourful website to make this a bit easier. If you sign in you can download the colourways as a .ase which can be imported to CS2 and CS3 applications via the Swatches palette (InDesign CS2/CS3: Load Swatches; Illustrator CS2/CS3: Open Swatch Library: Other Library; Photoshop CS2/CS3: Load Swatches). A pleasure to use!
I’ll give it a try now.
4 Responses to “Choosing colours while designing”
Great find, Rob! I’m new to color schemes but I didn’t have a hard time navigating the site.
I especially liked those with beach and sand themes. I guess I like monochromes
By Gabriel on Jun 24, 2007
It is quite one of the most useful and beautiful Flash sites I’ve seen (seen plenty beautiful but not useful!)
Thanks for popping back Gabriel. Hopefully I’ll be posting more stuff you’ll find helpful.
By Rob Cubbon on Jun 24, 2007
Useful indeed.
Sure Rob. I subscribed as well so I won’t miss any of your useful articles.
By Gabriel on Jun 24, 2007
Cool!
By Rob Cubbon on Jun 25, 2007