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colour schemes

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Named Colours	Alphabetically	BHS: by Brightness, Hue, Saturation	HBS: by Hue, Brightness, Saturation	SBH: by Saturation, Brightness, Hue
Named Colours	RGB: Numerically	BSH: by Brightness, Saturation, Hue	HSB: by Hue, Saturation, Brightness	SHB: by Saturation, Hue, Brightness
Numbered Colours	HTML 3.2	Websafe	Rainbow	X11
Selected Colours	Pale	Dark	Simple	Greys	Colour Schemes

Introduction

With the advent of css, it is trivially easy to change the entire colour scheme of a website. It makes it even more embarrassing if your website's colours don't co-ordinate well. Creating a pleasing colour scheme requires an artistic skill I don't have, though I think I know a good one when I see one.

I thought I would start collecting colour schemes for the web authoring community. If you have some colour schemes that you are willing to share, please email them to me. All you need do is list the hex colour numbers you think go well together, ordering dark to light. Give your colour scheme a name. If you want to save me some work, put them in the same HTML table form as those below.

The Schemes

Feel free to use any of these colour schemes in your web pages without credit.

Submitter	Scheme Name	Colours
Roedy Green	matte	#575757	#79C6F2	#CCB08E	#FFDFB0	#EEEEEE
Roedy Green	futura	#333333	#404040	#006699	#A16801	#FF9900	#CCCC99	#CCFFFF
Roedy Green	adobe	#008080	#a28d68	#d5ccbb
Roedy Green	autumn	#a0a0a0	#c6a646	#e6d8ae
Roedy Green	Easter	#008653	#006633	#9c399c	#319463	#bdbd9c	#ff79ac	#d6a5d6	#ffffcc
Roedy Green	Halloween	#000066	#003399	#333366	#0000ff	#0066ff	#66ccff	#99ccff	#ff9900	#ffffcc	#e4e6e9
Roedy Green	jolly green	#004400	#005500	#006600	#007700	#008800	#088808	#009900	#00aa00	#00bb00	#00cc00	#00dd00	#00ee00	#00ff00	#ff0080	#f7f79c
Roedy Green	milky green	#400040	#588078	#90b0a8
Roedy Green	monochrome	#111111	#222222	#333333	#444444	#555555	#666666	#777777	#888888	#999999	#aaaaaa	#bbbbbb	#cccccc	#cdcdcd	#dddddd	#eeeeee
Roedy Green	playschool	#993300	#3399cc	#667fff	#9966ff	#66ccff	#66ffe6	#e666ff	#cc6633	#ff66cc	#ff667f	#66ff99	#ff9966	#ffe666	#ccff66	#7fff66
Roedy Green	Queen Anne	#484060	#402840	#284848	#786058	#a89890
Roedy Green	the blues	#4f657d	#808080	#8399b0	#c1ccd9
Roedy Green	Windows	#000080	#008080	#808080	#c0c0c0

How To Collect Colour Schemes

You can collect colour schemes by buying a copy of Paint Shop Pro 7. Then you can take a screen snapshot of any application or browser display, and then use the eyedropper tool to sample the colour. If you open the colour wheel, you will see the corresponding HTML hex number displayed where you can cut and paste it.

You can sample photos of fabrics, house interiors, nature, etc. to collect a pleasing scheme. You can capture images with a digital camera or with a scanner. As far as I know, doing this does not violate any copyrights. Using other people's names for your colour schemes might get you in trouble though.

Another techinque is to use the Web based colour scheme creator called The Colour Schemer. It only works with Internet Explorer. You select a base colour, and it suggests other colours that will go along well with it. It does well with earth tones, not so well with accent colours.

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