Color Inspiration

When creating a color scheme for a blog (or any artistic endeavor), a great place to see your colors side by side is COLOURLovers.  Even better, if you are at a complete loss, you can view other people’s color suggestions.  In a moment of serendipity, the colors I had in mind for the SheekGeek.org redesign of *blue* and *green* were in a palette on Color Lovers.  Not only that, the palette had been created just 7 minutes before I visited the site.  (Not surprisingly, these are also common colors used in our home.  I am definitely influenced by my surroundings.)

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Color by COLOURlovers

The colors also come with HEX codes, which make it easier for web coding (or should I say tweaking, since I do not code!) and photoshop.

These colors really got me going, because I completed almost the entire overhaul of SheekGeek.org in one night.  In that night, we went from this (keep scrolling!):

Nature Wdl 1.3 Theme

To this:

Arthemia Free Theme V2.0

I am in love with dreamy goodness of this new site design!  It has my creative juices on overdrive – oh the post ideas that are brewing…

By the way, if you are wondering how I got those super long screen-shots, it was a snap with a firefox plugin called Screengrab!.