Majolo

Have you ever noticed that when you stare at a website with a white background for either too long, or at night time that it can really strain your eyes? I really like websites with white backgrounds because, if done well, they can look really clean and stylish, but sometimes they can end up being so bright that it can hurt your eyes to the point that you end up squinting at the screen.

I have been trying to find a nice neutral colour that was close enough to white as possible, but with a warm twinge to it. I normally go to a website called December to find inspiration for colours whenever I get stuck for ideas. I highly recommend this site, the colour charts are sorted into categories for ease of use like neutrals, warms, greens, blues and purples. However, I couldn't find a colour that I thought was 'just right'.

I am (slowly) decorating my flat at the moment and I really love the colour I am using on the walls which is a really lovely warm white colour from Farrow and Ball called Pointing. I am using this in their Estate Emulsion finish. I thought it would be a nice idea to find a hexadecimal colour that looked just like the Pointing paint colour. I tried to find a colour that matched the paint, but the best colour I found was by using the actual paint.

To match the colour as accurately as possible I used a free program called ColorPic which is available to download for free from Portable Freeware. To 'pic' a colour, you just launch the programme and then you can 'grab' any colour that you like as long as it appears somewhere on your screen.

I think that the nice thing is that now the background colour (#FAFFED) of my website is the same colour as my bathroom and kitchen walls. So when I am standing in my kitchen cooking dinner i.e. heating up custard, I look around me and think...hmmm, I must post on Majolo again soon :)