Colour palette

I chose cool-toned colours to keep the colour palette calm and soothing. The basis was the grey background as I believed warm-toned colours would clash too much. The colour scheme I decided on for my blog revolved around the idea of calm soothing tones to compliment the lifestyle oriented content. 

I decided to do my colour palette after my banner because I wanted to use tones from the image as a guide to the overall colour scheme of my blog. To do this, I took a screen shot of my blog and used the Adobe Kuler program to select the colours I'd used.

Screen shot from Adobe Kuler (Image by Amadee Stenzel)

Each colour can be found somewhere on my blog, mostly in the banner and I liked the idea of using images to set a colour scheme. The colours I've chosen are the following four. 

RGB: 204 199 209 HEX: CCC7D1

RGB: 97 144 142 HEX: 61728E

RGB: 177 175 196 HEX: B1AFC4

RGB: 59 59 59 HEX: 3B3B3B

The meaning behind my chosen colours is to keep with the calm and simple plain. My ideal blog design would utilise these colours in more places than just the banner. I'd use the purple and blue shades to accent my blog posts and the dark grey as a font colour. 

It was suggested to pick only three colours, however I feel like these colours rely on the other to keep them from looking too grey-toned. For example, without the first shade of light grey, the blue and purple don't appear to have the same delicate undertones. Whereas the combination of the first three distinguish them as completely different colours when compared side-by-side. 

The last shade and darkest colour is essential as I would use it as an anchor to prevent the text from blending into the page. The grey colour of the body text isn't dark enough to properly distinguish itself from the background and proves to put a slight strain on the eyes. The darker grey-black shade would be much easier to read without eliminating the simple and calming effect of the other colours.