Color Combinations

[joroho]

In the Graphic Design forum on the About.com website, they have some pages devoted to good color combinations. They all are described using some catchy phrase to capture the essence of the colors. Most of these are 4-color combos, but some are 3-color and 2-color. You can find them at:

http://graphicdesign.about.com/libra...r+combinations

Out of curiousity, I created rectangles and triangles within a Xara file with 4-color, 3-color, and 2-color fills of each of these combinations. Attached is a gif which shows a dramatically reduced view of the file.

For those of you who may be interested in the file itself, I'll attach it on a subsequent post.

.joroho.

[joroho]

In the Graphic Design forum on the About.com website, they have some pages devoted to good color combinations. They all are described using some catchy phrase to capture the essence of the colors. Most of these are 4-color combos, but some are 3-color and 2-color. You can find them at:

http://graphicdesign.about.com/libra...r+combinations

Out of curiousity, I created rectangles and triangles within a Xara file with 4-color, 3-color, and 2-color fills of each of these combinations. Attached is a gif which shows a dramatically reduced view of the file.

For those of you who may be interested in the file itself, I'll attach it on a subsequent post.

.joroho.

[joroho]

Here's the Xara file. I should add that I take no credit for these color combinations and recognize all copyrights, trademarks, registrations, permutations, calculations, and implications inherent with these limitations.

Salutations,

.joroho.

[gwpriester]

Joel

Were there any restrictions on the About.com site as far as distributing these color combinations?

You may be violating someone's copyrights by distributing this. I would try to get the author's OK before making this available. Otherwise, you may be depriving the author of her/his rights to be compensated for his or her efforts.

Gary

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[Wolfgang]

Thanks for this great tip joroho!

I tried to make a pallette of named colors for Xara - the easy way - but failed.

I downloaded XPal and thought I could just pick the colors on the webpage, name them and save it all as a pallette. Guess I was wrong.

Here's my problems:

1) The colors (of the page joroho mentioned) are meant to be websave. When I try to pick them up with XPal (or ColorPicker) they are JUST NOT websave, meaning the values are 207 when they should be 204, or 156 when they should be 153. This happens in IE and three different versions of Netscape as well, so it's not a matter of the browser.
XPal offers no way (that I would have found) to restrict the picker to websave colors). Changing the values by hand is extremely tedious, for you have to click on every slider and then change the values with the cursor keys.

2) I did not find any way to name the colors before importing into Xara.

3) When I import them into Xara and rename them, I don't find a way to re-export them for further use.

I tried different ways, like going over Photoshop, but it uses a completely different format.

Maybe this has all been covered before If so, I missed it.

Is what I am trying to do simply impossible, or am I doing something wrong ??

Wolfgang <img src=http://www.xara-x.com/images/rollauge.gif>

[Ed Nadie]

Joroho, I also keep a xar file of color combinations from the same site. My favorite description is 'grass and moon tones'.

For a saccadic treatment of the people's fave's, check out the attached...

Ed Nadie

[joroho]

Thanks, Ed, I'll check it out.

Gary, I'm working on obtaining Judy Litt's permission to post these, albeit after the fact. However, she hasn't yet responded and it's been three days since I asked her. She solicits these color combinations from her readers, so it doesn't seem right to me that she would be able to claim copyright infringement. But, I'm trying to be above-the-board here, so I'll wait for a response from her.

.joroho.

[Wolfgang]

Ed,

all I get when I open your file is a big white rectangle. Oh no, wait, that's just the page background ... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

I also got an error message from Xara when I opened it ..

Wolfgang

[rgremill]

joroho, this was a great find!

I just created my website using color combination 49. I've always liked the color #336699, ever since I first saw Hotmail. Check out the site and let me know what you think: Gremillion Consulting

Thanks!
Robert