Hello Lovers-

I have a challenging (or at least chall. to me) color to work with:
#005F55

The client is not particularly jazzed about this color to start with but it is their logo color and cannot be changed.
In speaking with the client I showed them this site:
BurtsBees
Which they instantly fell in love with.
I love it as well it was designed by a good friend who rocks at color! The buttery yellow with the red highlight color is a perfect match to Burts packaging and the various levels of yellow are really quite pretty.

But the yellow and green combo does not really work that well. So I am trying to figure out a nice neutral background color that can work with a little bit of the green (the logo) as well as the complimentary color to the green (a kind of brick/rusty orange red) #D23000.


anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

thank you very much!
Jon

Not Wild about that blue huh? I think it's great :)

wow thanks manekineko. these are all beautiful Esp like the Guillaume Tell.

And reason you called your dark green Parker? just wondering (is a family name of mine)

thanks

And reason you called your dark green Parker? just wondering (is a family name of mine)

That must be why then ;)

let's see...







I am realizing it would be helpful to know what kind of client it is! What kind of product etc.

I agree it would be nice to know the content or target audience, but here are my go's

Hope this helps! I saw no one had any yellows accenting the clients logo color. :)

Oh wow I am sorry as this forum doesnt seem to notify via email of postings... So I was not ignoring you all but just unaware.

The Client is Kneipp (http://kneippus.com)
they sell herbal bath oils, herbal supplements, herbal teas that all are part of a system developed by a German monk Sebastian Kneipp based on curing folks through herbal therapies combined with Water Therapy. Soaking in curative waters (think of that movie Road to Wellville with M. Broderick) just without the medical quackery. I was introduced to the whole concept of herbal healing on this project and I have to say it really does the trick! My wife couldn't sleep - was on all kinds of sleep drugs that did not seem to work - then she tried a 15 min bath with Valerian Root extract and WHAM she was out like a light! The one other thing to note is these products are considered pharmaceutical grade in Europe but due to the US and their inability to grasp herbs as having any medical effects they are either over the counter or not offered at all (for fear of inappropriate dosing).

target audience is female skewed 30+

thanks again for these suggestions-

Jon

shades of beige and orange along with white can work well with this color..tommorow when i go to my cubical (as it is 10 p.m in this part of the world) i will post a screen shot of an interface that is based on similar color and looks great..it gives great feeling of space :)

wow thats awesome sounding! looking fwd to it.

get some sleep!

thx
Jon

this might be to bright but here is one and it is even kinda using yellow

a couple more if it helps

I went to the site. Is this the redesign? Have you tried the new colors?

Is the client entirely set on that brick red? I am not wild about it, especially in context with the product. I think an orange might work better.

Ok... here are some more ideas:

why not just use different shades & choose any accent color?

I think most of the existing site colors are good, except for the background and the orangy header color in column 3. I wish the background were a beige with much less of a yellow component, maybe a less saturated version of distant dunes.

And I very much like the touch of blue violet on the header bar flowers. I'd pick that up as an accent color, and use it very sparingly