Fresh Color Combos Tagged as Design’s Next Big Thing

May 7, 2005 – About.com recently launched in their website a wide variety of color combos involving process colors, spot colors and web colors that can be used in designing a website, an art project, a promotional material, printing needs and other design inclined job. Said color combos use playful, earthy, bright, inspirational, attractive and easy on the eyes colors to ensure dynamism.

Designers are constantly comparing their works to other designer’s work in order to know what design works. According to Judy Litt, a distinguished designer, color is definitely a large part of what makes designs work, whether it’s black and white, process color, or the Web safety palette.

Designers use varying kinds of colors to fit to their intended design. Popular set of colors are process colors, Process colors, also known as 4-color, use varying quantities of CMYK colors, short for cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Spot color otherwise known as pantone, uses the exact color that the designer intended. The most common among spot color standards is the Pantone Matching System (PMS). In this kind of color standard, designers often have with them a set of swatch books to reflect their samples and codes. Web colors, on the other hand, are the creation of colors for HTML pages by mixing different quantities of Red, Green and Blue (RGB) light. Instead of ink pigments they utilize lights. These colors are web safe or colors that cannot be dithered when a restricted color palette is in use. These color combinations are picked using a 3-in-1 JavaScript color picker to compose and compare the colors; and a 4096 color picker which has a wide variety of hex values when using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

CMYK and spot color have a lot of interesting possibilities between them. They can be combined or mixed to create duotones, tritones and quadtones. Succeeding mixtures can also be used to create new colors and effects. A great percentage of designers are still clamoring for more colors. The answer to their clamor is the arrival of fresh color combos by About. These powerful combos are expected to boost every designer’s valued design.


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