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A Guide to Color Combinations and Color Schemes in Graphic Design & Web Deisgn - The ultimate guide to Color theory and Examples of Color Schemes and Color Combinations Within Designs.
55+ Color Tools for Color Palettes, Color Combinations, Color Schemes & More for Graphic Designers & Web Designers - Part II - A huge list of online color tools and utilities to find new color schemes for your layouts and designs.
How to Choose Color Schemes in Graphic Design and Web Design - Find Out How to Combine Colors the Right Way - Find out more about colors and how to use theme within your layouts and designs.
Color Accuracy in Graphic Design - Color accuracy in graphic design is very hard to achieve, but it is also one of the most important aspects of design. So how do you make sure that you give your clients the most accurate color samples? This design will go into this color accuracy question and give you some of the answers.
Color Questions a Designer Should Ask Their Printer - Find out what questions you should ask your printer before submitting your documents.
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55+ Color Tools for Color Palettes, Color Combinations, Color Schemes & More for Graphic Designers & Web Designers - Part II - A huge list of online color tools and utilities to find new color schemes for your layouts and designs.
ColorGuides.net - Our online store offers Pantone color guides, Pantone Chip guides, Pantone Textile Guides , Pantone Plastic Guides, and Pantone software for the graphic designer, interior designer, architectural designer, and printers/publishers.
Colorstrology - Flash site about color by Pantone
More Crayons - Most internet users have monitors that can display more colors than the 216 that are used in the traditional “browser-safe” palette. moreCrayons is a bigger box of crayons; 4,096 colors for the web.
Pantone - The authority on color. The official site of Pantone.
The Tint File - The Definitive Color Reference Dictionary including over 20,000 combinations of CMYK.
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