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Colors Reference Cards: Green

January 2nd, 2007 in Color | 7 Comments

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Sometimes we just don’t know what color to use. Sometimes we have no idea which colors to combine in order to create a beautiful color palette which would attract the visitors of our web-sites. That’s why we’ve decided to create some kind of visual reference cards or cheat sheets for the most popular colors of Web 2.0. Green, Purple, Black, White and other colors will be reviewed and analyzed in the next articles.

Today’s Color is green. You can download it from our web-site. Please don’t refer to the image in your blog posts, but to this article. We’ve invested a lot of time creating it. So if you’d like to use it, at least appreciate our work. Please.

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    Typo (January 3rd, 2007, 5:26 am)

    Sorry to nitpick, but “aprreciate” should be “appreciate”.

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    Joff (January 9th, 2007, 7:07 pm)

    Fantastic - I’m a developer by trade and struggle to visualise colours from a chart or swatch.

    More of the same please!

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    Alex Mos (February 4th, 2007, 12:18 am)

    Nice reference card… do you have other colors too? or will you make posts for other colors reference cards in the near future?

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    Avinash (March 11th, 2007, 9:26 pm)

    What a wonderful reference card! I love the colors!

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    Daniel Fischer (August 9th, 2007, 7:07 am)

    Are you going to release any more of these? I found this one really awesome, I would appreciate new ones. :)

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