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Color Harmony for the Web: A Guide for Creating Great Color Schemes On-Line

Color Harmony for the Web: A Guide for Creating Great Color Schemes On-Line

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Color Shemes - AND WRONG COLOR CHARTS...
Review: A catalog of different color shemes to be used on web sites, with little explanation on how these came to be. Some of the colors in the first edition have been printed incorrect, although the 2nd edition is supposed to have the correct colors printed.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A user friendly, single volume guide to enhancing a website
Review: Cailin Boyle's Color Harmony For The Web is a completely "user friendly", single volume guide to enhancing a website through effective color selections. This handy reference covers hundreds of color combinations organized by style and mood, providing the reader with inspiration and expertise in making their web color selections perfectly showcase their purposes and intentions. Enthusiastically recommended for novice and experienced webmasters alike, Color Harmony For The Web provides more than 800 unique color schemes (including RGB and Hex codes); color palettes matched to specific moods; inspiring and illustrative examples of real-life website color schemes; and a color conversion chart for easy and accurate color matching.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dissapointing!
Review: Can you imagine? This is a book about colors of the web and it has mistakes about it! The book shows green while the correct color should be pink, etc. Yes, there's a page whose the correction... but do I have to see the revised page every time I want to mix colors???? What a wasting time! :(

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not very useful
Review: I expected a book full of web examples to learn about color at internet. But all I found is some few examples of webs and loads of color combinations that are not very useful for me.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Inspiration gallore!
Review: I have enjoyed this book so much! This is the first book that I go to for inspiration when designing web sites.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: color corrections
Review: i have to revise my previous review of 4 stars as i too have noticed some big discrepancies in colour reproductions - there is one 'blue' that keeps coming out green. really, this shouldn't be allowed to get through the editing phase. unfortunately, this isn't a website (and could therefore be corrected asap) so those like me who have bought the book have to suffer. if i were the author i would feel very let down by my publisher!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great book - but could have used a little more text.
Review: I like this book, because the concept is great and it is beautifully done. I have used it with several design projects and i find suitable colors much easier with it than my old methods. However, i would have liked a bit more text and color theory, because it is only a few pages in this book.

At the beginning of the book there is a short introduction to color theory. The book is then separated into chapters for the different moods of color and at the beginning of the chapter there are a few examples of web sites that were designed with those color moods.

Overall i give it a thumbs up, because it's a great tool if you work with colors!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good for ideas
Review: I liked the book more for the overall help in picking a set of colors for a mood, and theme that I might be looking for. For that, it is great.

I think there could be a little more descriptive text, talking about colors, themes, and maybe even break down some of the sections a little further, or maybe even cross reference the charts, same colors, but used in different categories.

Overall the book was helpful, the colors seem to be off a bit in the back, and as nicely done and expensive as the book is, I think that is the major downfall of this one.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Falls down on color
Review: I was initially highly delighted with the book. An equal to any of the other books in the 'Color Harmony' range. Then I began to spot errors with the colors. Glaring errors. Where greens should have been blue, reds should have been purple and so on. Until Rockport Publishers reprints this book with the correct colors, the whole book becomes mislending, especially to novices in the field of web color.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Great book except ...
Review: I'm a big fan of the Color Harmony series, and I was estatic to see that they created a version for web designers. Looking through their books is always a nice way to jump-start a project - getting ideas for what palette to start with is often the toughest for me.

What I like about the book: it has a good selection of two and three color combinations, grouped by theme (professional, lively, classic, bold, etc) with the RGB and Hex codes easily available in the back of the book.

What I don't like: The color harmony series has always been bad at reproducing colors on the page exactly as they appear in CMY or RGB indexes. This book is by far the worst. Purples appear where oranges should be. Blues are entirely the wrong shade. The color reproduction for the "correct" colors is horendous and actually having wrong colors in the book is an issue that should have prompted the publisher to issue an immediate recall.

If you're willing to not look at the actual color combinations on the page and instead type in the RGB/Hex values into the computer, the colors they suggest together do actually work nicely, but this is a product that should have been recalled and reissued by the publisher or printer.


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