Best colours for site

[♥14steve14]

Whilst i am aware that everybody has their own tastes and ideas. What colours do people think make a really nice looking and easy to read website.

[hooliganfootagedvds]

i cant change my colour :'(

 

but i would say black&white is always a nice colour :thumbsup:

[mark27uk3]

Your joking right black & white???

 

Besides black and white are technically shades and not colours!

[Brooke]

Your joking right black & white???

 

Besides black and white are technically shades and not colours!

hey, dont be so quick to laugh at black and white. ive made some pretty bad ass looking sites using only black and shades of grey. it all depends on what the site is for, and your target audience.

 

besides, we have all seen the rainbow sites out there made by the color challenged. butterfly puke anyone? MIGHT I SUGGEST BLACK AND WHITE?? BLACK AND WHITE!!!! DEAR GOD, STICK WITH BLACK AND WHITE!!!!

 

id say a safe bet is to stick with ONE color that is pleasing to you and appropriate for what you are selling, and keep the rest black white and other shades of grey....like the lovely mark has done http://www.aiotek.co.uk/

the addition of yellow with the red shows his advanced skills...VERY BRAVE MY FRIEND, very brave.

[deathgod]

take a look at my site.... http://www.osstore.co.za/zashop/ i used a shade of blue for the outer background, and shades of gray for the inner background, and i used the same blue as the outer background for my hover links. I think it all goes together quite nicely. Tell me what you think please.

 

Also, some butterfly and rainbow site are very good.... take a look at http://www.karasutopia.com - not made by me

and another site made by the same person...... http://www.vagant.de

 

Nick

[♥14steve14]

I must confes to liking sites that have a mix of shades of blue and grey. Black and white are a deffinate no no.

[♥Monika in Germany]

Having worked on 100s of sites now (and on 3 of those discussed here hem hem), for me it's not color, it's contrast.

 

Take a screenshot and reduce its size to 150px, show on a white background and step away 2-3 steps. If you can still get a feel for that site and would recognize it in 10 days as one you have seen, you've done a good job. If you can remember the company name and logo also, all the better. On the other hand, if it just flows into the endless stream of website ... you get the point.