Web Design Color Selection

Web design color selection is a very important task that comes up over and over again. It’s very important to pick out the correct colors for a brand and to make sure that a website honors those colors.

But how do you go about figuring out what the specific color of a pre-existing brand is? In today’s article I’m going to show you how to do web design color selection to figure out what the exact color of a brand identity is.

Want to know what the exact red in McDonald’s logo? (Hex code: #C0281E)

Want to know what the blue in the American Express logo is? (Hex code: #016FD0)

I’m going to show you how to do web design color selection! What we were going to need is an image editing application, such as Photoshop.

If you don’t want to pay for Photoshop, there are free applications out there that work just as well, such as paint.net.

You’ll want to download these to get started. Once you have an image editing software, what we want to do is track down the logo or the artwork that has the color that we need to find in it.

What we do is load that image into the image editor and then we will go about web design color selection. So, now go into the toolbox and look for the color selector icon, it will look like a dropper tool that you might use for eye drops or something like that.

Once you have this selected, hover over top of the area with the color that you want to figure out and click on it. This will change your color tool to the exact color of the spot that you clicked on. Next, we need to expand the color tool so that we can find the hex number of the color.

This is the exact color represented in numbers, six numbers to be exact. Some hex numbers can be truncated into three digits for shortening purposes (like #fff for white or #000 for black). Once we have the color hex selected, we want to take this color and paste it into our CSS or into our website to ensure that the colors are an exact match to our logo and our branding.

Need help figuring out how to find the exact hex color number for your brand? Hit me up on my contact page, and I will be glad to assist!

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Written by: Jophiel Silvestrone

Jophiel Silvestrone has written 326 posts in the Tech Blog.

Jophiel grew up on a ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana near Chico Hot Springs. Working on the ranch instilled work ethic and self motivation. Filled with this drive, Jophiel started mowing the local school's yards twice a month throughout the summers, at the age of 12. He moved to Billings in 2004, where he has been deeply involved in the local business community ever since. A serial entrepreneur, Jophiel has ran multiple businesses in our local community. The first business, a janitorial and carpet cleaning company, founded in 2005, has employed over 50 locals. Moving on to the media industry, Jophiel and several partners founded Green Directory Montana in the spring of 2007. Green Directory's sustainability ranking software awarded points based on sustainable or "green" actions. These points counted towards a business's total "Green Score," which in turn ranked them against other businesses in their category and throughout the entire site. It also featured a limited edition print version distributed annually. A business acquisition allowed Jophiel to focus on new projects, and a few close business colleagues and Jophiel started Rocky Mountain Mr. & Ms. Magazine, a lifestyle publication for men and women in the Magic City. After a year and a half at the helm of RM3 Magazine, the business was purchased. He now runs a web development company SkyPoint Studios and fathers his son Jaoquin, who plays football, basketball, soccer, and is learning snowboarding from his dad. Recently, has expanded to locations in Havasu, Arizona & Vegas. SkyPoint Studios is a market leader in both Billings & Havasu and Jophiel is working on building that same level of market dominance in Vegas. Specialties: Extensive experience in online and offline business. Especially savvy at WordPress, and operate several sites, one example is the blog: skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com/tech-blog. Check out skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com for the latest projects from SkyPoint Studios.