#colorposting

[calware]

can't draw atm so i'm doing the next best thing which is just. making dots with colors i like

[lepidoptera-waking]

new project

[dilfsisko]

Sage Green for @andromede-ayne 

[calware]

❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷 this is SUCH a win for color enjoyers such as myself

[calware]

the best part of the branding process as a graphic designer is getting to pick fun names for the colors in your palette

you could call this orange. or red. or even red-orange. but those communicate nothing. if the thing you're making has a playful vibe, you say "papaya" because it feels fresh and sweet. if you want a more serious feeling, you say "clay" because it feels practical and has a sense of purpose to it. and it's so fun to do this

[calware]

i'm not sure if this is the most useful tool for doing this but it's the one that i currently like the most: contrast grid by eightshapes. this tool is useful for testing text colors on different backgrounds to see if they are accessible. this is so important because while you may be able to read the text on your blog/carrd/website/etc, not everyone can, and this site will tell you if your color combination meets the web content accessibility guidelines for color contrast

for example, here is the grid for my website (minus the graphics like the fake text files or the pesterlogs, which have preset colors). AAA means high contrast, AA means good contrast, AA18 means "only use for large or bold text, not body text" and DNP stands for Does Not Pass

there are a lot of other sites out there that can help you test your web colors, but i like this one because it allows you to enter your entire palette at once and see how each color interacts with the rest. it's also fun to name your colors and they all look nice laid out like this

this firefox extension is also very helpful; it allows you to click around a website and it'll tell you what passes and what doesn't

also, i should note that not *everything* has to pass 100%. for example, this blue-on-white doesn't pass:

it's just good to know what does and doesn't pass, and the more that passes, the better. just know that if something doesn't pass, some people might not be able to read it well

[calware]

Best color combination?

i couldn't decide on just one... so here are 2 of my favorites :)

[calware]

if there was a colors fandom i would be in it