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Summary: For the Hard Core
Review: Screw the mistakes..There's a perfectly good errata addemum you can reference. This book is for the web design obsessed. It's open on my desk 90% of the time I work on a site. It's simple direct and primarily a reference book. The chapter intro's are short, well written and informational. I'm pretty savy with design but I could never come up up with these great combinations. I love this book..
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Summary: For the Hard Core
Review: Screw the mistakes..There's a perfectly good errata addemum you can reference. This book is for the web design obsessed. It's open on my desk 90% of the time I work on a site. It's simple direct and primarily a reference book. The chapter intro's are short, well written and informational. I'm pretty savy with design but I could never come up up with these great combinations. I love this book..
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Summary: Do not buy this book...
Review: The author published corrections on the web site, but they are too numerous to make the book worthwhile. As you flip through the pages and think you've found a color combination, you then have to compare it against the error list... what a pain - the errors have made the book worthless for what the stated intent was. If you simply want to be able to look at three colors next to each other to see what you might like, it does that. Try then to use the RGB scale for the corresponding numbers, and that's when the 'fun' begins of uncovering error after error!!
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Summary: This one needs a minus rating!!
Review: The author published corrections on the web site, but they are too numerous to make the book worthwhile. As you flip through the pages and think you've found a color combination, you then have to compare it against the error list... what a pain - the errors have made the book worthless for what the stated intent was. If you simply want to be able to look at three colors next to each other to see what you might like, it does that. Try then to use the RGB scale for the corresponding numbers, and that's when the 'fun' begins of uncovering error after error!!
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Summary: Do not buy this book...
Review: The book is fantastic, in fact I got it at Borders recently but discovered it was the first printing with all the wrong colors. I returned it, then came to Amazon figuring they would have the latest edition. They don't. I ordered it here and just got it today, it is the first edition with the little supplement color correction sheet. It is too cumbersome to cross reference the colors and if I am paying for a book, I should not be expected to do that. So, very disappointed. Great book...but Amazon should have the newer version that is supposedly out there I feel.
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Summary: Big disappointment
Review: The color combinations look good in the book, but bear no relationship to the colors you get on the web. The printed colors are sometimes wildly different than the on-screen colors they are meant to represent. It was a waste of time and money.
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Summary: color disharmony
Review: The color schemes in the book are great, but, this is a big but: the RGB codes/hex codes are NOT correct. so this book is totally useless!A webdesigner from the Netherlands
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Summary: I can't keep this on my desk!
Review: This book has been the best! I do web design and development and I always reach for this book first. I take it with me to visit clients, it is an excellent tool for working thru color choices early in design as well as inspiration for me. My team members love it too, It's slot on my bookshelf is always empty!
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Summary: color me confident!
Review: this book has just arrived and on first glance is meeting all my needs and then some. there's pages and pages of color swatches grouped by moods, examples of how the schemes are used, an extensive color conversion chart, information about color, i could go on for a while here - it doesn't disappoint. color harmony for the web is perfect for people who need to choose online color schemes and apply them in the right context. maybe you're a 'do-it-yourselfer' designing your own site and have little knowledge of the how's why's and wheretofore's of color offline, let alone online - you'll find out which colors go together and what combinations are most appropriate for the mood/feelings you want to convey. website designers could take the book on customer visits to 'kick off' discussion, or it'll save you time if the choice is always yours. my only issue was with the statement 'most computer monitors can only display 256 (8 bit) colors at once'. according to thecounter.com global statistics, as of january 2001 more than 92% of monitors could display 16bit color or higher. it seems we're designing our sites for less than 8% of the browsing public who know they've got a bad monitor and probably should upgrade! call me selfish, but wouldn't the 'majority' want to experience the full power of their monitor?
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Summary: A good resource, even with the problems
Review: This book is a wonderful resource that is deserving of 5 stars if it wasn't for the printing issues and wrong hex colors. Some colors you pick will come out completely different on screen and 10 or 20 hex colors are misnumbered. Don't let this scare you away though. It is not difficult to match the correct colors in Photoshop using it's built-in color picker and the publishers have put up a a page on their site with corrections to the wrong hex numbers. Overall, a great resource, but you may want to look into the Color Harmony Workbook, printed by the same publisher, as well.
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