Choosing colour schemes

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Published on 2009-12-10T17:45:02Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 7:33 UTC
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How do you choose your colour schemes for your applications and/or web designs?

Is it a gut instinct thing or can logic be applied here too? I have looked at some colour theory but my combinations seemed wrong.

I am looking at a monochrome webpage. Rather than pluck colours out of the air as usual I would like to see if there is a science behind this. Links and opinions welcome.

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