[off topic] css colors

fbas

Is anybody good at colors? I'm horrible at color and UI design. I want to use the UI Themeroller "start" set, and want to set up some good colors for odd and even rows and for sorting_1, sorting_2, and sorting_3 columns to match.

http://173.174.111.248/cdiac/

can anyone suggest some good color combinations? or even some pointers on color mixing (i.e. sorting_1, 2, and 3 are often similar, just more faded as the number gets higher. so if I have a good starting color, how do you efficiently find a lighter version of the color?)

thanks

fbas

I guess my home server went offline. try http://www.beg.utexas.edu/_work/dt/cdiac/

fbas

I found help from this color blender: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/

GregP

Looking forward to enough 'modern browser' uptake that you can just set one value with alpha transparency and then the underlying stripes will just automatically be the right colour. :-)

allan

I like using Adobe's Kuler for colour inspiration: http://kuler.adobe.com

Colour Schemer and the online version of it are very useful as well: http://www.colorschemer.com/

Allan

fbas

Thanks. I've bookmarked those.