If you are “brave” like me and would like to experiment with different colours for the web, one of the safest way to do is to use colours from flowers, fruits, plants or even the landscape. One of the things I discovered is that “natural” colours usually don’t clash and they complement each other very well. For example, if you take a flower (that is the entire plant which includes the flower) and create a theme, you will usually get a good mix. So, the next time you decide to design a website, you should go on the web and start downloading photos from nature like rivers, mountains, gardens, trees and even fruits.

You need just one little software called The Color Picker in order to figure out what colors the pictures or photos have. This software allows you to find out the RGB or the Hex value of the colour of anything on your screen. So all you need to do is to start the software and the move your mouse cursor to whichever you want to find and it will tell you the colour codes. And it’s free. I will do a little review on this software next time. It’s a great software.

Here are some samples (of flowers) colour themes which I have done:

#ECCAE1, #A04438, #C06DAC, #F5C629, #CA5AA2

#A5842D, #BD9674, #3A4F29, #E87B24, #DEB325

#F3EB3B, #0D1C15, #6BBB44, #E4DF4E, #DA59A1

Now let’s try others:

#C38D2B, #1E0A0C, #A44723, #425A28, #E88923

#E9D29D, #CD792C, #E49224, #D8B478, #F69246

#F3AC5A, #D7AF2E, #F9D290, #191512, #C23E26

#F69970, #456A80, #F5918C, #596A73, #B1A281

#EDA54B, #B05C7A, #FAEC9B, #E881AE, #6D6B7F

#F7E68B, #08182D, #E3E2E5, #667AA8, #B0BFCF

I am not a professional, but I hope that this little post will tell you how to easily choose your colours. Think nature. I think they are great for logos and graphics but you should use caution when you are using them for your webpages. This is because although the colours don’t clash, you need to figure out which colours will be for fonts, headers, background and so on. Using the wrong colours for your site will make your webpages look out of place. For me, I will usually go for light background with headers and footers a darker colour and their fonts something very light or even white. But of course, this is my opinion. And it would work well for beginners. Darker backgrounds should be meant for those more experienced with web design, since they do need more effort and care when choosing the colours.

What do you think of the colour blends I have made? Please, I would like to hear your comments.