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u/egypturnash · 3 pointsr/web_design

I used to have juuust enough color sense to know that my color schemes were crap. So I got some books full of color schemes, with bits of discussion on what was going on in them. At first I'd just pull colors out verbatim; as time went on I internalized a lot of things. If I was starting now I'd probably be hitting up the sites people mentioned above as well; this was back in the 90s before these kinds of sites existed.

The biggest advice I have: Vary things in hue, saturation, and value. A very very common problem is to only change H and S; when two colors are the same value, or close, they blend together indistinctly. I'll sometimes throw a desaturation layer over my work to make sure it works in greyscale.

Delete whatever default palette your art program gives you for a new document. It's probably full of hideous hyper-saturated colors that you'll end up using without thinking. (This is the equivalent of working with colors straight out of the tube in real media.) Keep your saturation below about 60-75% most of the time; save the super-saturated colors for when you want something to pop.

I don't ever really say "I want to go with a split complement scheme" or the like, I just think "well I did this as blue and purple, now I want this detail to pop, oh yeah something amber looks good". If you're working digitally then take advantage of whatever you can do to quickly push the colors around - experiment, play, learn! (It's not the endless rescalability that makes me love Illustrator; it's the fact that I can use 'global' palette swatches that immediately change the entire drawing when I play with them, as if I was palette-swapping a Street Fighter character or something!)

u/chadatha · 3 pointsr/graphic_design

There are lots of books that are nice to look at, but the one I've personally gotten the most use out of is The Color Index. There are also companion books: the Idea Index and Layout Index.

u/helusay · 2 pointsr/logodesign

It's too bad they don't have a web version of this book. I have found it very useful.
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Index-Revised-Jim-Krause/dp/1440302626

u/BillClam · 2 pointsr/graphic_design

I'm still using my copy of the color index, which has to be at least ten years old by now.

http://www.amazon.com/Color-Index-Revised-Jim-Krause/dp/1440302626