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Course materials for COM535: Instructional Design
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Color schemes #23

Open ghost opened 11 years ago

ghost commented 11 years ago

Just started tossing some ideas around. I was thinking that we could have predominantly light background/dark text with each chapter using a different color in the header bar: something like a spectrum, but more muted colors to avoid eye strain.

Colourlovers.com is one of my favorite sites to get color inspiration from. Here are a couple of palettes that I thought might work well.

http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/48747/hippie_dippy http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1664634/My_Favorite_Spectrum

This one's a bit too bright; I just love the name: http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1930/cheer_up_emo_kid

kchughes commented 11 years ago

I love the hippie dippy color scheme. Maybe with a dark grey base color.

atsansone commented 11 years ago

Was thinking the same thing, though less muted; after all, I'm doing Ruby. That's why I did my header with a gradient at least, so as not to overpower.

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I love the hippie dippy color scheme. Maybe with a dark grey base color.

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ghost commented 11 years ago

Another thought:

Each chapter will have its own color, so we can use variations on that within the chapter. I think making the background of the asides at 20% of the chapter's color will help them to stand out as different than the normal text. We could also make the buttons, strong and em tags that color.

atsansone commented 11 years ago

I'm ok with most of that, save the buttons. Buttons carry certain connotations, especially since I have red. Big red button = bad.

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Another thought:

Each chapter will have its own color, so we can use variations on that within the chapter. I think making the background of the asides at 20% of the chapter's color will help them to stand out as different than the normal text. We could also make the buttons, strong and em tags that color.

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