Ask HN: How do you find a colorscheme for your project?

Re:Ask HN: How do you find a colorscheme for your project? by lbrandy on Friday February 06, 2009 @04:05PM (#470363)

Abject thievery.

As I waste-time on the internet (err, do market research) I bookmark attractive sites. My only scruple is that I try to pick a site that is totally off-topic in a completely different industry. One of my projects recently "was inspired by" http://heroku.com/. I hope they take that as a compliment.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find a colorscheme for your project? by noodle on Friday February 06, 2009 @04:20PM (#470391)

i also resort to abject thievery.

my feed reader is full of design blogs that i use to siphon ideas into my head. i'm not good with creative design. i design like an engineer would -- i look at a lot of things, take the pieces i like, and reassemble them together to the best of my abilities.

most of the things i create are just compilations of things i've seen in the past that i thought were neat.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find a colorscheme for your project? by ErrantX on Friday February 06, 2009 @04:18PM (#470389)

I employ a similar method. Rather than thievery I think it is just influence. I will use bits from several designs I think work well (layout ideas from one, colurs from another etc etc.).

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find a colorscheme for your project? by atourino on Saturday February 07, 2009 @07:13AM (#471077)

Remember that the secret of creativity is how well you hide your sources. ;) Most creative works now stand on the shoulders of giants.

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