Find the Best Color Scheme for Your Website With This Guide
With millions of colors to choose from for your website, choosing a color scheme becomes an overwhelming decision. Smashing Magazine’s Color Picker Guide will help you find the perfect colors.
The article offers some helpful tips, such as choosing a starting color that doesn’t match your competitors, and using Dribbble and Designspiration to view colors used on other websites.
However, perhaps the best advice is to choose just two colors, a base color and an accent color, instead of trying to add five or six colors in addition to neutrals, as in the color palettes above. The reason you only need to choose two colors is because you are probably already using two or three neutral colors for your site: white, dark gray, and possibly light gray. Be more simple.
See the guide below for more details on choosing colors. It can really help narrow down the range of colors for your website or other design project.
The Simple Web Developer’s Guide to Color | Smashing magazine