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I’m now designing a newsletter based upon a website www.northeastspca.org. The signature color is a bright lime green, which I try to use sparingly. Too much of this color is distracting. I’m looking for complimentary colours that can be used as background rectangles and shapes etc. Text will be on top of the rectangles. Any ideas TG’ers.
Many Thanks
Bill
From Google-Quote:
Originally Posted by bwood
Promoting vitality with both its shade and its brightness, neon green is best used to add excitement to a design. With hints of blue and red in its base colors, neon green pairs best with pinks that fall in the red violet range in the color wheel.
c2ec09 an interesting shade of green
you could go online to one of the palette designer or complementary colour sites and see what they throw up [pun intended ]
You might use this as an opportunity to create a restricted pallet of harmonious colours to use on both the newsletter and the website so that they compliment each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by bwood
not knowing the exact color of green try this
deep magenta
#CD32CD
RGB(205,50,2
Lime green
#32CD32
RGB(50,205,50)
if these do not work for you I'll see what I can do if you provide me the exact lime green you want to use.
see my earlier post larry - it's c2ec09 [unless the xara colour picker is lying :)]
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I had taken a different track handrawn I like your choice very much I also chose a deeper purple as a compliment, in the long run the choice is up to bwood
i like your choice
Bill - I think you have already solved the problem. Using grayed down and less saturated versions of the green works well.
You're dealing with an animal shelter not a fashion line. The colors should be soft and friendly. Maybe some tweaking but in my opinion as the ancient author of Looking Good in Color, (1995! :O https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Good-...s=books&sr=1-1) I like how you have handled this color.
I don't have gary's er, pedigree, when it comes to graphic design, but there is sense in what he says, not a lot can be done with such an in your face colour
I would be more concerned with the hotch-potch of colour and shape that is the content of the page and that fails to draw the eye anywhere... but I guess you are stuck with that
I have such an aversion for that Magenta!
Why not two complimentary greens?
I'd go for a dark and light green.
Thanks Gary. Very useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
True handrawn. It’s tee shirt color for sure. And yes I am stuck with some unchangeable content on the front page. Unfortunately the shelters don’t have gobs of money.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
As others have said that green is quite a vibrant and a little will go along way! I’m not an expert, but I would think a complementary purply colour and greys might look quite good. (see below).
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Something you could try is using the ‘pallet from photo’ tool. For example, I made a green bitmap out of a shape (a circle) to make a pallet of colours. (see below).
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Xara also has an online version:
https://www.xara.com/tools/color-palette-generator/
@jonopen. Excellent. I just have to tone down the whole thing down. I’d like much of the design in the newsletter to match the style of the website.
One huge challenge is have is the “posters” they use on social media that they want to use on the website. I’m trying to convince them I’d like to transcribe the poster material into a column of text with a nice symbol.
So I’ve got some selling to do. My first page and the activity pages are just hot messes! Northeastspca.org
-Bill
Here is a good understanding of the standard color wheel from an artist. He has a simple addition to the understanding of that color wheel which can help all graphic designers and painters. Maybe this will help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_GY3Jz12rE
A complimentary color, according to this color wheel, that is subdued or not vibrating bright, can help highlight the subject color.
@jonopen. Many Thanks. I’ve also found that rusty orange is a complimentary color to the lime green. I’m using it successfully in a new ,enter and website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonopen