Colour (Web site graphics) - Softcover

Carlson, Jeff; Malina, Toby; Fleishman, Glenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564965163 ISBN 13: 9781564965165

Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc., 1999

Synopsis

Web design often relies on color to get the message across: and whether a designer uses a palette of colors to turn up the volume or a single hue to quietly create an effect - good use of color is essential online. Tricks for bringing the colors from a printed work to the screen, using color overlays, or using color to attract attention and improve readability - all are collected here, plus many more examples of innovative uses of color.

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Review

Another in the Web Site Graphics series, showcasing outstanding Web design, Web Site Graphics: Color focuses on innovative use of the 216 colours in the Web-safe palette and on colour schemes that dare to go beyond to 8-bit.

Among the many eye-catching sites is the colour-restrained Lekrummet Online (http://www.ot.se/lekrummet/). However, since this book was researched, Lekrummet has transformed into the equally attractive Ultraboy (http://www.ultraboy.com/). The happy colour blocks at Gurl (http://www.gurl.com/) are not stereotypically "feminine" colours; the site looks young and active. Intensely green "futuristic" wire frame images make Gr8's Web site (http://www.gr8.com/) recall 70s science fiction and Japanese animation, an attention-grabbing idea in a site for a design firm. And for those with 8-bit capability, the digital comic book site Zark (www.zark.com/) offers richly smooth gradations within its images.

As with the other books in this series, Color is not a how-to. It is a gallery of today's best efforts in Web design. The authors have carefully chosen the sites and explain the ways in which each one excels in the use of colour. If you need to find some new inspiration in a hurry, thumbing through Color will be a lot faster than clicking away through search engines. There's a lot to look at here. --Angelynn Grant,amazon.com

Topics covered: screen captures of many Web sites showing innovative uses of colour in Web design, with captions explaining why each site was chosen and listing artistic credits, and an index with the names and addresses of all design firms involved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564965163
• ISBN 13: 9781564965165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 93