Websites' color scheme generators - what to do with them in real life?

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Published on 2010-03-26T10:34:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 8:23 UTC
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On the web there are plenty of color scheme/palette generator tools and color palettes galleries. All of these tools/gelleries show many 3 to 5 colors palette as final result.

Some of these tools: http://kuler.adobe.com, http://www.colorexplorer.com

I know my question might sound ridicolous to someone who is involved in web dedign, but I don't understand what to do with these color palette. I mean, if I have to create a website, how am I supposed to apply this color palette to the website. Which color goes as foreground text, which one as background, which one for the links, which one for the page titles and so on? What are these color palette generators useful for then?!

Thanks!

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