As you can see I have changed over to the Binary Blue WordPress Theme. Right now I have selected no scheme – or the no visual excitement choice.
Now I need to look over the code and figure out where to go – visually that is – with the blogs color choices. Blue is my favorite color and I am thinking of mixing it up with the natural earth tones. Perhaps a wheat and green as compliments? Should I use a graphical header or plain color? So many choices and questions to mull around.
Then there is the effect that textures have on color, warm color vs cooler colors (warm colors like red tend to give the appearance of moving toward the viewer but have the negative side of being interpreted by many as angry or aggressive. Cooler colors like blue canbe read as a relaxed calm or a depressive mood. I can not forget the hue and saturation or color wheel realtionships now can I ?
Color me geek. Ya think I am overthinking this? 🙂
Actually, I don’t. This has been one of several struggles I’ve been having with the church website. There were at least two times last week where I contemplated an email to you to see if you wanted to help with the code and style hacks on it…it’s been a challenge to me.
There’s a handy little Firefox plugin that grabs page palettes and saves them as Photoshop palettes. You can get it over on the extension page — it’s called ‘palette grabber’, funnily enough. The cool thing about that is when you see a page with a nice scheme you can grab it and at least have a color palette to try building a style around.
DnW
I will have to check it out – thanks. Sherwin Williams has a good set of palettes too.