Colour advice please

Hi Tony – so what you want is the totally “normal” nondescript grey to be a nice color which will go well with the rest of the site, and you want it for the search box text entry field and the comments section fields, and the search, submit comments, and vote buttons, etc? Right?

Try hex #FAF2EA for the fields, with #110804 for the text on the buttons.

Why would you go to all that trouble to merely waste both of our time?

Hmm. Well, if you didn’t like those colors, all you had to do was say you didn’t like them. Or if I misunderstood what you were asking you could simply have reframed your question.

Maybe my eye trouble is causing me to wrongly attack you, but it felt like you were wasting my time on purpose. The colours appear to me, black and white. As they almost are by default now.

I’m hoping for some assistance in getting a suitable shade of brown for the text boxes and buttons which match but dont clash my site’s theme’s background and layout colours.

Sorry to insult you wrongly if I did.

They’re actually a pale camel tan and a very dark brown.

thank you. sorry again.

i’m afraid i feel that those two colours severly clash and are very far from the spectrum i am hoping for.

Tony, you may find Eric Meyer’s Color Blender handy for generating colors related to your theme, though I suppose you’ll have to just trust it to a certain degree.

Here is another Color Schemer which I frequently use.

Thanks for those links. I’ve been having a play around but haven’t had much luck.

A problem I’ve realised, is that even if I can get the colours looking good, which I don’t think I’ll be able to do, the style of the button isn’t great.

Do you know of a way to get a more stylish button and box, perhaps with very subtle rounded corners? Else, it looks a bit unprofessional and play skooly.

Perhaps I should just take away the search feature anyway?

The style of the button and search box depends on the theme/Appearance of the operating system on the machine you are using. As an example, if using Windows, change the theme/Appearance from Windows Classic to Windows XP, etc. and see how that affects what you are viewing.

Tony, you can try using CSS to style the button like what I have on my theme at https://www.filipinowebdesigner.com. Another option would be creating a graphic for the button, just like what I have in https://www.pixeliera.com. To do this, just change the HTML for your search button to this structure:

<input type=”image” src=”absolute path of image” alt=”” name=”submit” value=”sign up” align=”top”/>

For the text box, I really don’t know any other way for it to have a rounded corner except for putting it in a DIV tag with a non-repeating background image that has a rounded corner.

Hi,

the problem arises partly out of the fact, that your color scheme is a bit illogical and “mixed”.

I like the general scheme of two tones of burnt siena with reddish ochre and black/dark brown (in the graphics).

This scheme works well and meshes well.

Your links and highlights however follow a totally different color scheme, which is not really linked – colorwise – with the other. It’s a “competitor” within the field of reds/redbrowns.

I’d either go for an antagonist color (like such pairs as red-green, blue-yellow, etc.), or I’d go for the same scheme as the main one, if you want a generally blended, calm look.

A good antagonist for your base scheme would be the leaf and olive greens. What also would work are either the turquoise blue shades or the cobalt blue shades.

The search button I’d give a toned down shade of whatever links colors scheme you decide upon. The textfields background I’d only slightly color, with a very light version of the text color of your body text (your main scheme), just so the extreme white is broken.

Regarding the links color scheme: the white for hover doesn’t work at all, that’s where you break colors a second time, the first break is – as I said – the clashing, competing clear orange.

I would have liked to make some concrete suggestions, but to be honest, your jumbled CSS file and finding the relevant spots there, was way too much trouble for this early hour. A tip: try to keep CSS nicely structured if you want people having a look and maybe helping. If they have to hunt through reams of non-structured jumbled text to pinpoint some specific class or tag, that’s asking a bit much ;-).

Greetings

LHK

Thanks for that Neon. It’s just that I can’t expect that of my visitors and was hopping there was a way I could do something at my end.

That’s a great tip and advice Kutitots. I’m not very familiar with CSS though so I’m not too confidence on that. Is there any templates or sites which could do it for me do you think? I’m rubbish at graphics so best not attempt your second tip to create an image for the button.

Thanks very much for your extensive help lhk. Much appreciated. I’m happy with my site’s colours although value your points. I’m not experienced enough to go changing the highlight/text colours etc so will leave them as they are. I’m really mainly concerned with getting the search box and botton, and the comments boxes and buttons more appropriate to the colours already there, as they stand out as the biggest irrelevant objects.

I dont know how my CSS gets like that. Some days its fine. Some days its not. I had a link which enabled me to cut paste and have all the code fresh and structured nicely, but that’s gone now.

Thanks guys. Further help would be highly appreciated.

Tee.

Hi Tony. I’m honestly not too familiar with sites that create graphics automatically ‘coz I create mine using Photoshop. I’ll drop a reply here if I stumble accross one though ??