As part of 2010, I’d like to finally move away from my mostly monochromatic color scheme for my blog. However, the problem is … I can’t choose colors to save my life! After some fiddling around last night, these are the colors I ended up with:
It might not be the worst possible colors to pick, but … ugh, even I know they’re ugly. But, I just can’t choose good colors!
Help me! What colors should I use as the palette for my new theme? I really do like the background color and body text colors I chose … but what about a highlight color? And link colors? Let me know what you think I should try, please!
Programmer, husband, father, singer, guitarist, tinkerer, reverse engineer, strange, and living in New Jersey. 
Try using a web color wheel to find colors that work well with your background color. Here is an example of one:
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Here is an example of a scheme that would probably work better:
http://colorschemedesigner.com/#1T41T91uKw0w0
Very interesting – I really like the way http://colorschemedesigner.com/ implements its web page preview. Thanks! I’m going to play around with it some …
There are some others out there that you can search for, but they all are based off the same color wheel theories. Gives you a more programmatic method of picking colors instead of just going by feeling.
have you considered black text on black background?
ok, maybe that’s not so…
Thanks, Anonymous Coward. ;-)