Colour Scheme

Even though I already had a final design for the website, I had not yet come up with a colour scheme - hence why the website's design was mocked up in shades of green. So, in order to create a coherent final design I needed to come up with a colour scheme. Fortunately I found this quite simple as I had clear ideas in my mind for the three main colours to be used on my site.

I decided that two main colours were needed, alongside a contrasting colour that would be used to split up pages or draw attention to certain things. When picking these colours, I wanted the site to seem stylish and modern, as well as related to the Mario games of the last 25 years. Because of this, I chose a deep red as my contrasting colour, and then blue and white as the other colours.

Red was chosen as it is the famous colour of Mario - and it's brightness and striking nature will suit the role of a contrast colour perfectly.

The blue and white was a slightly more ambiguous choice as it bares less relation to Mario - but when used and mixed together can create a pleasant and stylish look to websites - such as the Pimlico Plumbing site that I analysed on this blog and within my sketchbook.

Here are the three main colours: