General: Choosing a Colour Scheme

I openly admit, that my design skills aren't the best. I'm far too logical, and just end up putting things in boxes, with primary colours and greyscale. Outside of the computer, I can be pretty creative, but I find programming and art just don't mix all that well

In saying this, since moving to style sheets as a layout method, this has really helped as it means the coding and the design are well and truly separate. I'm currently in the process of giving thinkbikes.com a clean up, and then greating a sub-site which will be based on Vanilla. In having a fiddle, I came across a great website for choosing Colour Schemes (or Color Schemes for the non-brits amongst us).

colorcombos.com has 245 sample colour palettes, all tagged appropriately, so it's easy to find what sort of scheme you are after. I had a search through and came up with about 10 that I felt would do the job. Using their Javascript based testing tool, I was able to add and remove colours from the palette I liked best, until I found a scheme I was happy with. Then simply copying and pasting the relevant hexadecimal codes into my stylesheet, meant I could see what they looked like.

This is the colour scheme I have come up with, and both Dave and I are pleased with it. I'm going to sleep on it a little before committing 100%, and I also need to check that chosen shades will be available in Pantone colours, to make sure that getting t-shirts printed is a simple task. I'd be interested to hear your feedback too

I like it.

http://kuler.adobe.com/ is what i've used mainly, some awesome colour schemes on there

There is also http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes/ which is also pretty good

Couldn't resist a fiddle. Just what I came up with in five min.

I quite like it I must admit.

But if I'm going to have a proper "logo" instead of a super-simple text logo, then I may as well be designing the whole thing. In for a penny, in for a pound, as they say.