아래 블로그에서 제게 도움이 되는 부분을 발췌 하였습니다.
디자인을 공부해본적이 없는 저에겐 도움이 많이 되는 내용인것 같습니다 ^^
http://blog.naver.com/ououmomo
http://thebanmappingproject.org
디자인에 쓰이는 주요 컬러를 최대 세 개 이하로 정해놓고, 선택한 컬러의 밝기를 조정하여 팔레트를 생성한다.
What: Choose one, two, or at most three major color hues to use in the interface. Create a color palette by selecting assorted values (brightnesses) from within those few hues.
Use when: You decide on a color scheme for an application or site. You want to avoid a flashy, rainbow-colored, "angry fruit salad" look, but you still want the interface to have some character.
Why: Where colors are concerned, sometimes less is better. Too many color hues scattered throughout the interface, especially when they're bright and saturated, make a design noisy and cluttered. The colors compete for the user's attention.
But when you use many subtle variations on a single color, you can create a design that has depth and dimension. Consider the gray and brown colors used in the example above, reproduced in the color strip below. Notice how the darker and grayer shades appear to recede, and the lighter and brighter tints appear to move forward. This contributes to the pseudo-3D effects -- such as beveling, drop shadows, and gradients -- that form the contours of the UI.
How: As mentioned earlier, pick one, two, or even three main hues. You get black and white for free, but gray counts. In fact, gray works very well in multiple values and brightnesses; it's a versatile color, especially if you add a little color to make it more blue (cool), or more beige (warm).
Within those hues, vary the color value to get a range of bright and dark shades. You can also vary the saturation at the same time; this can produce more subtle color combinations than you would get by varying just the value. Use as many of these colors as you want to compile a color palette for the application. You can, of course, use other colors in the interface besides these hues. Just use them sparingly. Icons, ads, and other features that take up relatively small spaces don't have to fit this restricted color scheme. You might want to choose only one or two accent colors, too, like using red or cyan to mark points of interest. In fact, using a single hue for the "background" of the UI actually emphasizes these minor colors because they don't get lost in a sea of color hues.
