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Re:Ask HN: Minimalistic web design works? by RossM on Saturday September 04, 2010 @11:42AM (#1662863)
If I'm honest the "restraint of colour" is really a lack of colour. It needs colour - I fall foul of this all the time as I don't mind grey-scale colour schemes but it really needs at least 1, preferably two colours.
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Re:Ask HN: Minimalistic web design works? by tptacek on Saturday September 04, 2010 @12:00PM (#1662892)
Restrained greyscale (maybe 2-3 values plus black) and a strong accent color is the "little black dress" of web design, and an easy way for non-designers to produce designs that, while probably unspectacular, will at least look competant.
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Re:Ask HN: Minimalistic web design works? by loup-vaillant on Saturday September 04, 2010 @02:32PM (#1663121)
I second that. I tried to put colours on my web site[1], and failed miserably. Any colour scheme I could come up with was ugly. I finally gave up and settled on the more manageable grey scale.

[1]: http://www.loup-vaillant.fr

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