Color Harmony for the Web: A Guide for Creating Great Color Schemes On-Line [Paperback]

Cailin Boyle (Author)

Book Description

Series: Color Harmony | Publication Date: February 2001

Choosing the right color palette can create a world of meaning for any on-line project. Color Harmonyfor the Web is a wonderful tool created for Web designers and desktop publishers. It provides you with the building blocks to ensure that you make the most effective color choices for every Web project-every time. This handy reference offers hundreds of color combinations organized by style and mood, and is all you need to help you wade through the thousands of color schemes available within the range of Web safe colors. Color Harmony for the Web provides you with the inspiration and know-how to make you Web colors sing.

* More than 800 unique color schemes, including RGB and Hex codes.

* Color palettes matched to specific moods provide creative inspiration for any range of web design projects.

* Evocative examples of real-life websites illustrate moods and effective color schemes.

* A color conversion chart allows for easy and accurate color matching.

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About the Author

Cailin Boyle is a San Francisco-based writer working in all media, from dot-coms to the entertainment industry. She has written for the New York Times, How Magazine and Fodor's Travel Guides. Her work was recently selected for the 2000 Emerging Playwrights Festival.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564966038
• ISBN-13: 978-1564966032
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,891,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Falls down on color, May 8, 2001

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This review is from: Color Harmony for the Web: A Guide for Creating Great Color Schemes On-Line (Paperback)

I was initially highly delighted with the book. An equal to any of the other books in the 'Color Harmony' range. Then I began to spot errors with the colors. Glaring errors. Where greens should have been blue, reds should have been purple and so on. Until Rockport Publishers reprints this book with the correct colors, the whole book becomes mislending, especially to novices in the field of web color.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great book except ..., July 14, 2001

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"aweishaupl" (Gotham) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Harmony for the Web: A Guide for Creating Great Color Schemes On-Line (Paperback)

I'm a big fan of the Color Harmony series, and I was estatic to see that they created a version for web designers. Looking through their books is always a nice way to jump-start a project - getting ideas for what palette to start with is often the toughest for me.

What I like about the book: it has a good selection of two and three color combinations, grouped by theme (professional, lively, classic, bold, etc) with the RGB and Hex codes easily available in the back of the book.

What I don't like: The color harmony series has always been bad at reproducing colors on the page exactly as they appear in CMY or RGB indexes. This book is by far the worst. Purples appear where oranges should be. Blues are entirely the wrong shade. The color reproduction for the "correct" colors is horendous and actually having wrong colors in the book is an issue that should have prompted the publisher to issue an immediate recall.

If you're willing to not look at the actual color combinations on the page and instead type in the RGB/Hex values into the computer, the colors they suggest together do actually work nicely, but this is a product that should have been recalled and reissued by the publisher or printer.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the Hard Core, February 25, 2004

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This review is from: Color Harmony for the Web: A Guide for Creating Great Color Schemes On-Line (Paperback)

Screw the mistakes..There's a perfectly good errata addemum you can reference. This book is for the web design obsessed. It's open on my desk 90% of the time I work on a site. It's simple direct and primarily a reference book. The chapter intro's are short, well written and informational. I'm pretty savy with design but I could never come up up with these great combinations. I love this book..