Colour Lovers and Modern Life

As you start developing your ideas for your web sites, you'll need to think a little bit about colour. One good source of advice is Colour Lovers - which looks at the different palettes of colours used by different web sites and magazines. It's good for identifying different colours that work together and combinations that are currently 'trendy'.

I found Colour Lovers via the excellent Modern Life, which is also a great source of design advice. Stuart Brown, the guy behind the site, is very clued up but also amusingly sarcastic about current web design trends. He has a great guide to currently popular Web 2.0 typefaces and a useful 'web typography cheat sheet'. He also written some good basic advice on developing effective web designs and some excellent posts about popular Web 2.0 colours and the way he uses colour on his site. His guide to writing good headlines online is very witty but also very useful. Have a look round the site and see what else you can find.