Good use of color
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Good use of color
The Color Wheel shows the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. To find complementary colors (these colors go well together on websites) simply pick a color and look at the color OPPOSITE. For example, yellow's complementary is Purple (which is blue and red's secondary). Balancing color on a website is important. The wrong colors and color combinations can spell disaster - for instance, reds are hot, excitable, angry, blues are soothing. Try to find color combinations that work for the mood, and use the color wheel when in doublt what combinations work well. The color wheel (my crude interpretation of) can be found Here Wikipedia has a good resource on Color Theory.
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