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Developing a Colour Scheme

When it comes to colour, there is a lot to think about as you develop or design your WordPress Theme . It's like painting a house. Which colour will cover the entire exterior? What colour do you want the door? Or the window trim? Accents and complementary colours or contrasting colours?
The colours that go into a website are not limited to the colour of the background and text. You have to consider all the colours used together. For example the links on your site can have three colour choices:
It's important to make sure everything is in harmony. Your header or masthead may be filled with colour while the rest of the site may be less colourful. Titles, headings, and lists, all can be in colour. And don't forget about the bullets on your lists - they are often coloured, too. With so many colour choices, finding a colour scheme or theme can be a challenge.
To help you pick your website colours, here is a list of colour tools and resources to get you started.

Colour Schemes


Colour Charts


Colour Pickers


Colour Blenders


Colour Gradient Generators


Colour Tools


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Michael Suyama
Michael Suyama is a poet, translator, art critic, editor, and curator. He is the author of nine books of poetry, including Cabal of Zealots (1988, Hanuman Books), Understanding Objects (2000, Hard Press), and Rapid Departures (2005, Ateliê Editorial). He won the 2005 National Translation Award, given by the American Literary Translators Association, for his book of translations from Latin, The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (2004, Princeton University Press). He was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Rome for 2001-2002. He had a one-month residency at the American Academy in Berlin in Spring, 2006. He is the editor of the poetry and arts journal VANITAS and of Libellum books.
Steven Buchanan
Steven Buchanan is an American poet and novelist. His prose includes The Way Through Doors (Vintage 2009), Samedi the Deafness (Vintage 2007), Vera & Linus (Nyhil 2006), and Parables & Lies (Cupboard 2008). His verse includes March Book (Grove 2004) and The Village On Horseback (Milkweed 2011). Work of his appeared in Best American Poetry 2006. In 2008, he won the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for the novella The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp & Carr. He published a book of drawings, Og svo kom nottin, in Iceland in 2006. He is known both domestically and abroad for a bleak but lyrical style. He lives in Chicago and teaches in the graduate writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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