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If any of you have an account and make palettes on ColourLovers, pleeeease feel free to make palettes containing TCU purple, as I'm attempting to find a decent palette for a future library website redesign and that color is damn hard to work around. My first try. (My CL webpage with the palettes I've done so far.)

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Eeeeee! I love that site.
If I get time I'll play too!

:D I read the RSS feed every so often, and it hit me today that I could use it to work out a good color palette for the site. XD (Also, I'm starting to get into Interior Design mood, so working out colors etc. for whatever place I move into this spring. XD)

http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/263269/TCU_Palette_01
IT MAKES AN AWESOME PLAID!
*plays some more*

That purple is hard to work with, but not impossible!

I obviously need to go with a Scottish theme for the webpage! XD

Lord, what a fascinating site! Every time I get fed up with the Intarwebs, someone tosses up something like this ... .

I'll have to think about it. My tendency would be to try to find something in the natural world that corresponds. That is a pretty violent(?) purple, but it does exist in floral and fruit contexts, for example.

I've got another interesting site held in waiting before posting for when I get really bored. XD

I do notice that a lot of the TCU website adjust the saturation and brightness on that purple just ever so slightly darker. XD However, it is the Officiamal TCU Web Purple.

OK, check out this photo. The darker bits in the iris petal "falls" are pretty close. I like the colors that are in the background ... I guess a palette would be something like:

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Hee, that was fun, on a number of levels! You could drive any of the middle three most of the way toward white for a text-area background.

Hmmmm.... I'd have to change that yellow, as I have a bizarre pathological aversion to using yellow. XD

ANyway, I'll mess about with it, thanks. :D

Me too, lol (I think its from yellow being way too overused in superhero uniforms and comics in general).

I have a friend from college who once roomed in a house where the kitchen was papered with this BRIGHT BRIGHT YELLOW YELLOW PLAID wallpaper. It would certainly wake you up in the morning. XD

De gustibus non est disputandum ... And here I thought it was too dull w/o the yellow as an accent - I guess you could do a lighter/brighter purple, or a brown or beige instead and then pump up the brilliance of the lighter green. The yellow is from the little "beards" on the iris falls ... .

I won't tell you what my dream kitchen palette is based on, then! XD

Hee. :D If you go to my palettes in my account on CL, you can see the one marked "My LJ palette". That's close to my ideal living-room decorative scheme - I've inexplicably developed a fondness for very-discreetly-used shots of bright orange as an accent, contrasted with black, white/off-white/cream, and a couple of dark neutrals or almost-neutrals. XD

I'm thinking of doing my bedroom around the Completely print by Feimo, as I really love the colors in it. Although the overall color would be an off-white or cream, with shots of desaturated blues.

(I am working on a TCU palette that incorporates a brighter accent, however. XD)

I just realized that the iris palettes are pretty close to my current LJ color scheme ... which is based on this very icon. My mind is obviously very into that space at the moment ... .

I've been balked by circumstances in completing my idea for a living room color schem based on down DC in the spring, with the cherry blossoms. We still have the dark green chairs and white sofa (and yes! It's still white! After 20 years! It's a miracle ... ) and pink and dark green accent pillows, but the pale green wall-to-wall we had when we bought the furniture is now 2 houses ago, and the current rug is a dark-blue oriental repurposed from another room after the latest move, and I've never got around to replacing the blue curtains ... . In my head I love interior design, but when it comes to actually doing it, I end up spending energies elsewhere.

I love interior design also, but unfortunately I have taste above my budget. XD

I just did this one (http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/263287/TCU_-_Iris_I), which panders to my love of desaturated colors. XD

Nice! Very soothing, which sounds wrong - but actually, if it's a web site that's meant as a frequently-used reference, it's desirable.

You still might want to consider having a "hot" accent color that you use in sparse quantities (as in a thin bar, or a small splash bullet) as a highlight to draw attention. That's what the yellow was meant to be.

Yeah, that's what I'm aiming for (~~hah - assume my previous reply was due to me thinking your reply was to *this* emssage and not the other one XD~~ - ignore me, brain spaz). THe main TCU webpage once used orange as an accent color, which I kind of like. Or maybe a red.

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No idea if that just worked....

Seems to have - just missing the opening bracket. XD

I'm faving everyone's offerings, so I can refer to them at leisure. :D

Ha! I did mine before I read about your pathological aversion to yellow. ;)

XD No prob!

It seems the CL community enjoys challenges like this (http://www.colourlovers.com/forums/1,3/Advice_amp;_Critiques).

Ooh, I may have to post there. XD

Interesting how the greens keep coming up. We are purple too, and the library (expanded and remodeled in 2006) has a lot of those greens in our color scheme.

I think it's that secondary-color thing, most likely.

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