Color Help for the Design Impaired

I’m not a designer and right now our home­page is ugly. Really ugly.

One of my prob­lems is that I haven’t been able to decide on a color scheme. Until, that is, I was stand­ing in the bath­room brush­ing my teeth this morn­ing and look­ing at the paint color sam­ples that I have taped to the wall. (Try­ing to decide what color to paint the bath is a whole ‘nother problem…)

Uh, those nice peo­ple at the Behr paint com­pany have pro­vided sets of already co-ordinated col­ors. Right there in the hard­ware store; just for the tak­ing. How cool is this?

Even cooler is their on-line Explore Color toy. Pick a color, find com­pli­men­tary col­ors, waste a lot of time I should be spend­ing gen­er­at­ing con­tent for my ugly web­site try­ing to pick a color for my ugly website.

At the moment I’m lean­ing toward using Fos­sil Butte for the head­ings and Nature Retreat for the stronger graphic ele­ments (like page dividers) all set over a nice quiet back­ground of Nature Retreat for the side bars and Hushed White for the main text. Lovely, serene, and way more styl­ish that I could ever have come up with on my own!

Now I have to fig­ure out how get RGB val­ues for the col­ors I like. Yey! More stuff to track down. I’ll let you know what I find.