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Creating and Maintaining
Color Palettes
Defining a color palette for use in a web site and sticking to that set
of color values can be a useful tool for styling new elements on a site,
providing a consistent appearance throughout a site, and making it easy
to find color values when making site changes.
Design
Color theory is far outside the scope of this topic and is something you
could study for years; however, here are a few tips for choosing the color
scheme for a web site:
Design applications such as Adobe Photoshop offer a detailed color
picker that can be switched between RGB, HSL, and other color
systems, making for easy translations into CSS units.
Adobe Kuler is a tool for creating, browsing, and bookmarking color
swatches from your browser or your desktop. You can make swatches
based on a color wheel or drawn from an uploaded image file
( http://kuler.adobe.com/ ).
Maintenance
Maintaining consistent color usage across a large amount of CSS code
can sometimes be difficult. Color units are defined in so many different
declarations across so many different elements that it is easy to keep the
shade of gray being used the same or know what color should be used
for links. Here are some hits for making the task easier:
Pick one color unit type, and stick with it so searching for a color when
it is time to change it is easier. Don't use #ff0000 , rgb(100%,0,0) and
the keyword red interchangeably.
 
 
 
 
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