[Mageia-discuss] Colour palette for Mageia artwork

Sun Feb 13 14:54:48 CET 2011

On 13 February 2011 12:20, Patricia Fraser <trish at thefrasers.org> wrote:
+> Hi,
+>
+>> I have some ideas, but the resource given doesn't let me select only
+>> my 2 colours, and trying 3 (ignoring the middle colour) didn't work
+>> very well with my mouse and level of manual dexterity.
+>> (The "clickable link" didn't work for me either, but maybe I tried
+>> the wrong link.)
+>
+> It´s a drawback that it doesn´t allow you to use the keyboard instead
+> of the mouse, true - it´s just a resource for looking at colours in a
+> complementary or analogic way, keeping in mind that we´re in need of
+> sets of colours for web pages, wallpapers, icon sets, all sorts.
+>
+>> I think that these 2 base colours would be very good together :
+>> #0066aa (a blue similar to that of Mandriva) and
+>> #00cc00 (a light green).
+>
+> Something like this: http://colorschemedesigner.com/#3qd1-tZttK-MP ?
+>
+> Check out all the variants - you can make changes to individual colours
+> in the variants and look at them in use on the dark page/light page tab.
+>
+>> The effect of these 2 colours together would be very different from
+>> those of Mandriva.  The green is a refreshing colour that would be
+>> good as the main colour, as an accent, or shared on par with the blue.
+>> If one of the colours is to be an accent, I would rather it were the
+>> blue. If only one of the colours is selected, I would prefer the
+>> light green.
+>
+> I´d take a different shade of green (personal preference only!) - say
+> #00ff00, and a greyer shade of blue like alexn has been using, say:
+>
+> http://colorschemedesigner.com/#3Hd2ovKw0Mnf58Q1Gc9GTVKaPlZpbP.GrcIgNi
+>
+>
+>> As well, I hope you stay away from selecting (ugly) red/brown colours.
+>
+> It´s a different thing to use a red/brown/yellow as an accent (say 10%
+> or less of the colour on the page) than to use it as a main colour -
+> there are a couple of pinks in that last colour set, but you´d hardly
+> use them except to highlight things, if at all.
+>
+> Looking for more input, please folks!
+>
+> Cheers,
+>
+> --
+> Patricia Fraser
+> On the move
+> Gnu/Linux 1997-2008 #283226 counter.li.org
+> Dark Side - approach with caution
+>
+
+I would like to see something with more purple and dark greens in it,
+for some reason they have a natural feel to me.
+
+Its not perfect, but here is an idea of what I am meaning
+http://colorschemedesigner.com/#3Td1SvKw0Mnf5
+