Research: Colour

Research into effective (and ineffective) coulour schemes.
I already think that the colour scheme will mostly be built up from a simple monochromatic, black/white style. I will explore this further though.

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

http://www.colourlovers.com/

http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/search?term=black

http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/search?term=tag%3Ablack%20coffee

http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/search?term=gray

http://www.morecrayons.com/palettes/grayscale/

http://www.iamcal.com/toys/colors/

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/

http://www.colorspire.com/

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Colour

Principles of Colour
http://www.sitepoint.com/principles-of-design-colour/
http://inspectelement.com/articles/the-principles-of-good-web-design-part-3-colour/

Colour Connotations
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html
http://www.versacreative.com.au/vault/inside_design/colour_symbolism.htm
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397565&section=1.3.3

Visual Style Guide Key Points

SO, essential aspects are as follows:

• Logo
• Colour
• Typography
• Grid and layout
• Line
• Navigation
• Images
• Page furniture
• Graphic devices
• Photography
• 3D aspects
• Linking 2D and 3D
• Legibility
• Highlights
• Interface elements

Visual Style Guide Research

..exactly what it says on the tin.
The visual and general style guides for Naace, National Association of Advisors for Computers in Education.. apparently.
http://www.naace.co.uk/547
http://www.naace.co.uk/123

Not a particularly exciting topic for me, having left school and their curriculum for excellence behind but.. they have a rather nice visual style guide.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/cfe_styleguide_v3_tcm4-582681.pdf


This is not the best of websites.. in fact it's pretty visually dis-pleasing; but their visual style guide is quite thorough.
http://www.sc.edu/webpresence/visual_guide/index.html

Another university-esque guide.
http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/communications/creative_srv/visual_style_guide.pdf

This one is really good, very in-depth. With explanations and detail into every single thing.
https://infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/brand.html

Basic, but useful information here.
http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/visual-style-guide-for-elearning/

This is just bad..
http://help.joomla.org/files/visual_style_guide_v1.5.2.pdf

As is this:
http://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/7-page-design/3-visual-design.html

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