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Discussion on: How Do You Decide on Colors in Design?

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Aidas Bendoraitis

I used to use this tool for choosing colors: paletton.com/ (it had another name back then). It shows which colors fit together with others mathematically (using color theory).

From my recent findings, this website offers prebuilt color schemes: coolors.co/

The general rule of thumb for text readability is that the lightness/darkness contrast between text and background should be at least 50%, for example, if the background is white rgb(255, 255, 255), then the text should be no lighter than middle gray rgb(128, 128, 128).