Web Guidelines - Color

Burnt orange and white are the official colors of the university. The burnt orange used on the university's home page and Web templates is color #CC5500. The university's Visual Guidelines have corresponding information on PMS colors for burnt orange print work.

Burnt orange can be a challenging color to work with; a suggested complementary color palette is shown below with the corresponding color codes. The Web Central example templates all use a common set of these complementary colors. For best results, ask a designer to choose a few colors from this palette or try one of the ready-made color schemes below.

Color Suggestions for Coordinating with Burnt Orange #CC5500

Adobe Photoshop color scheme picker

We have included a master Adobe Photoshop file (zipped for pc and mac) that you can download and plug your own color into. The color scheme picker will generate a scheme of complementary colors.

Photoshop Colorscheme Chooser for PC (.zip)	Photoshop Colorscheme Chooser for Mac (.sit)

All of the color schemes below were generated using this Photoshop file. These will create a range of colors in the same color family. There are directions for using the Photoshop color scheme picker on the top layer of the file. These color schemes are based on some of the colors above.

These colors are not "Web-safe colors" The concept of the "Web-safe" color palette is no longer applicable because well over 98% of users can support more than 256 colors.