You and your employees don't need professional art or graphic design training to effectively use color in your documents. Restraint Less is always more where color is concerned.
Success comes from consistenly using a few, well-chosen colors.
Instead of adding new colors to a document, try using the same colors in different places. In the Cappuccino brochure, for example, notice how only three colors are used, but are rotated between foreground and background placement on each of the three panels shown. Color should never be used as a substitute for design integrity. Never forget that the first purpose of your document is to communicate. Color should not be used to decorate, but instead to purposefully highlight or separate information.