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Rules for adding colors to a black and white palette in web
I am working on a fashion website for my own portfolio, that allows users to have their own account where they save fashion related items. A sort of Pinterest for fashion items.
Now, I know that the ...
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How to design a modern/slightly futuristic-looking application
I was hoping to get some advice from some more experienced UI developers. I have been presented with a unique challenge by my customer, and I feel like I am failing.
Specifically, they want a UI that ...
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Visibility of elements over different shades of blue
I'm debating which colors to use for my website. We've been trying to find the right colors for the logo and graphics of the site, and struggling with trying to pick between the light and dark blue.
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Given a color scheme, how do I apply to website design?
Just so there is something concrete to discuss, say I have this color scheme:
http://www.lavishbootstrap.com/?image_url=http://design-seeds.com/palettes/12/SpringTones505.jpg
There are many articles ...
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How to make a color APPEAR the same on different backgrounds?
Background on color perception:
Due to the nature of the human eye and visual processing by the brain, there's an optical illusion that the same color will look different depending on the background. ...
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What shades of blue go well together (website design) [closed]
I've got a fixed layout page and the client has asked for it to have "shades of blue". What colour would you recommend for the background, page wrapper background, text, dropdown menu and the buttons ...
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Is a 8-Bit IPS display necessary for web designing?
I'm doing web design (not print or photography) and I'm wondering if I should spend extra money on a display that provides more accurate colors.
I'm already set on buying IPS since they're easier on ...
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How to design sites with dark colours (red and black palette)
The graphic designer for my club created a red and black logo (major color is black highlighted with red). Everyone thinks it looks great, and I agree. The issue lies with designing the site. We've ...
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Need suggestions on elements arrangement and picking colors
I'm making a new site, but I feel like colors or elements dimension aren't that good at all, I want it to look elegant and makes the user comfortable when looking at it. Right now I'm not getting that ...
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Shadow below images
I have this image that I got from slidesjs.com
It looks awesome when used as a frame, but I want to "elongate" it. Steps on how to accomplish this? I know it looks like a simple shadow, but the ...
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How can I improve my website design? [closed]
I'm launching a company and currently working on the website. Here is the link: http://goo.gl/HKbIK
As I'm not a professional webdesigner your comments / feedback / suggestions of improvements would ...
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What is the fastest way to copy a colour in Photoshop as HEX?
A lot of designers use Photoshop as a design and mockup tool. And in doing so, one of the last steps can be to get a lot of the colour information out so things like gradients and dynamic text can be ...
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How I can redesign my website without no prior experience in Graphics, tools? [closed]
I have a website who I want to redesign myself. The problem is I know a little bit CSS,javascript.
I have not have done anything on graphics. Someone have idea how I can design my website.
How I ...
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“Rainbow” header on web and mobile
I've seen a design pattern pop up now and again on the web and mobile apps. It's a "rainbow" pattern across the top about 5 pixels high.
For a great example, check out gowalla.com.
Anyone have any ...
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Looking for suggestions for making type more readable with a drop shadow
I want to show a menu with indented items on top of a black background. I tried a lot of colors but can't find the right ones.
I'm using css property text-shadow:
text-shadow: 1px 1px #191919 , -1px ...
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How do I export a JPG with the same color profile as my Photoshop workspace?
I created a design for a webpage in Photoshop and got all the colors looking perfect.
However, when I export it to a jpeg and view it outside of Photoshop the colors are completely different. If I ...
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Where can I find examples of high contrast combinations for websites?
I like the idea behind http://contrastrebellion.com/, and plan to implement that on my websites.
However, I'm a developer, not designer. I read a lot about the subject -where I must build the ...
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Is it possible to create a modern-looking design with a dark theme?
I was asked a website redesign with two requirements:
Inspired by Google Plus (clean, minimal, a lot of "white" space)
Switchable between a White version and a Black version
Here's my problem: ...
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How can I improve my color selection skill?
I'm a web developer, started to become a web designer. However, I think my understanding of colors is not practical yet. There are tools out there that can give you color harmonies, and more stuff, ...
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Showcase of Museum Websites [closed]
I am in the process of redesigning a website for a semi-private art museum / gallery, mostly for paintings. I am curious what museum websites (any types) that you like. I am looking for some design ...
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How to determine color transformations from given colors?
Our designer has provided us with some nice web 2.0 buttons, etc. I translated them into beautiful CSS3. Now I want to go overboard and generalize the color scheme using Sass color manipulation.
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How to choose embossing color?
I'm using css to emboss text with this:
text-shadow: black 1px 1px 5px;
My site uses different font colors and background colors. I was wondering how I can choose the "best" embossing color based ...
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How to choose colors for a website layout?
Given that I'm new to graphic design and I'm trying to design the homepage of my website, I can't really understand the reason why I can't make the homepage color "shine".
I'm sorry for the ...
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When I export an image from Illustrator, why is it a slightly different color in the exported image?
I have a web design layout in AI that I'm trying to slice up into HTML/CSS. I'm having trouble keeping the colors the same in the exported files as they are in Illustrator.
When I open it up in ...
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What's this type of abstract, blended-color image called?
I'm trying to create a landing page, and the main image which I have in mind contains a blended combination of mixed abstract colors. Something like those images:
However, it seems I'm not using ...
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Good color palette, usable for the color blind.
I'm designing a chart right now, that will slowly have more items added to it. I'd like to create an list/order of colors for the items, that will be most usable for the color blind to differentiate ...
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Good background and text colors for a website with both photos and text
I put both photos and significant blocks of text on a couple of websites I run. Currently, I'm using white text on black or dark gray. It's getting a bit old, and I think I'd prefer text darker than ...
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How to export PNG to be compatible with all browsers
I recently found our that some PNG files render a slightly different shade of color in Safari. (I think this is because Safari can't render PNG Gamma channel properly or what).
How do I export the ...
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What web graphics formats to use?
Web sites can contain JPEG, GIF, and PNG format graphics. Which ones should be used, and when?
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Are “web-safe” colors still important?
Years ago, it was always strongly recommended that web designers should only use web-safe colors.
Have studies been done to see if this is still the case? If so, what's the answer?
Edited to add…
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Do high-content areas of a website need to be white/light-colored?
Many websites that are designed to be easy to read (eg. nytimes.com or ilovetypography.com) use white backgrounds with black fonts to make the content easy to read. Is it necessary to only use light ...
