[Vince]

I'm actually really bad at deciding what colors to use for what purpose and as result my - forever unfinished - CnR project now uses a myriad of colors. I try to stick to a standard for error message: yellow for usage, red for errors. But everything else is a mess.

Tips?

[iZN]

Here are some tips.

- Just try choose mild colours, not so dark colours which would be bad for reading and light colours because they don't look good with the every message.

- Try to highlight stuff which is important by using semi-dark hex code.

- Don't use colours which can cause eye blindness, especially like purple, or royal blue for the whole text, it looks totally weird!

- Separate colour combination for every type of message. I do like, I've separated different combinations for example: race system is having a colour combination of dark orange and light blue and admin system is having a colour combination of yellow with grey text. See that I've only used only two colours.

Below are the sites I use to get proper colour combination:

http://colorschemedesigner.com/
http://www.colorpicker.com/
http://www.colorcombos.com/combolibrary.html

[newbienoob]

I don't like using too many colors in my server. Looks messy. I just use 2 colors as my primary color for showing messages. Red + grey.

On dialogs


Showing messages in chatbox


Textdraws


And even chat color


You can use your creativity in combining 2 colors. For example, blue + purple, red + green, and yellow + red.

[RajatPawar]

I have this thing where I use keywords like "INFO:" or "RECEIVED:" or "LEVEL UP:", and embed these with colors, instead of the whole message. Better as a standard, looks more professional and instantly tells the aim of the message without having the whole thing read. I use a lot of variations of light blue/indigo. No direct red or yellow!

[Avi Raj]

Try to use attractive colors which includes primary colors.

[Vince]

Quote:

Originally Posted by iZN Below are the sites I use to get proper colour combination:

Ah, thanks. I recently also rediscovered kuler.adobe.com after I forgot about it for quite some time.

[Slice]

COLOURlovers is pretty sweet for finding a palette to start from.

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes

[S4t3K]

I personally use Photoshop's colour palette.

I create a text, I colour it and I enable the in-live "View result" option. Then I get a very precise idea of what my text will seem InGame.

If you don't have Photoshop, use the Adobe colour website (the one you've posted before), it does the same but without the text.

[Lordzy]

I'm not good in picking what colors shall be used for client messages or dialog text formatting. Though, recently I've thought about picking up a group of random colors for client messages. Or a set of the chosen ones for each cases. For example, a race message could have it's own random colors either the same lightened or darkened or any other.

[Akira297]

I like using dark colors such as gray and black. If something doesn't work right (errors) I recommend using a dark red'ish color.