How to Choose Good Website Color Schemes
Tags: uiweekly, design, colorscheme
Published: 2022-07-04 06:48:31

Color Plays a huge role in how we see the world, and when it comes to your website, you need to give your Customers a beautiful experience to get them hooked on your brand.
So while working on designing a website we have to understand specific points including:

- Get to know color psychology basics.
- Prepare a sheet of color theories.
- Prepare a sheet of mixing color combinations.
- Keep it simple.
- Integrate your branding through it.

**Color associations** are powerful. These associations are instinctive and often subconscious. For example, everyone learns to associate green with leaves and nature and yellow with the sun.

**Color theory** is a set of fundamental principles that control how to create harmonious color combinations. Understanding these principles is an important first step in creating effective color palettes for brands and websites.

First, you need to understand **primary**, **secondary**, and **tertiary colors**.
The color wheel is a great tool for understanding the basics of color theory is the color wheel.

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/elxar9nq99bnwkmnse07.jpeg)

You might be seeing a tint (a color with white added to it), a shade (a color with black added to it), or a tone (a color with grey added to it).

Or you could be seeing an oversaturated or desaturated color. The saturation of a color is how bright or dull the color is.

**colors are combined to create new colors**, but we also need to look at how to combine different colors.

There are five main color combinations: **complementary**, **split complementary**, **triads** and **tetradic**, **analogous**, and **monochromatic**.


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/oubp2gqg73v4m6aajq39.png)

Apply Color Harmony Rule and Understand it more using Adobe colors here: https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel


**Keep it simple**, think about simplicity. A really complicated, busy color scheme often confuses the eye.

Finally, consider how your branding will play into your color scheme.

Websites and resources that I find helpful:

[Colormind](http://colormind.io/) : Color palette generator.
[ColorCurves.app](https://colorcurves.app/): Color palette generator that uses curves to generate color palettes.
[ColorGradient](https://colorgradient.dev/): 	A free tool to create simple and complex CSS Gradients visually.
[Colorate](https://colorate.azurewebsites.net/): Color scheme tool for designers and developers. This will help you draw inspiration and serve as a resource for your color work.
[Khroma](http://khroma.co/): 	Khroma uses AI to learn which colors you like and creates limitless palettes for you to discover, search, and save.
[Duo](https://duo.alexpate.uk/): Duo is a collection of colour combinations that I’ve curated from personal projects or that I’ve come across on the web.

**Helpful Website for Create color tints/shades:**
Visit Web tool [colorswall](https://colorswall.com/palette/generate) For more Help you can check this [Video Tutorial ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDzbieV9mU4&ab_channel=ColorsWall).

Also you can find a free Color Psychology eBook [here](https://www.flux-academy.com/resources/color-psychology-e-book?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=color-psychology-e-book).