WHEN I GO SHOPPING TODAY

We can do the same, say with a shopping list:
When I go shopping today, I'll pick up

1. Pork & Beans
2. Spam
3. Toilet Paper
4. A Nail File
5. Two Tubes of Toothpaste
6. Kitty Litter
7. Peanut Butter
8. Light Bulbs for the Refrigerator
9. Paste Wax
10. Rubber Bands
11. Eighteen Frozen Pizzas for the Party next Tuesday
12. Candles for the Romantic Dinner for Two on Wednesday
13. Paper for the Adding Machine
14. A pound of Three Penny Nails
15. Eight Jars of Dippity Do

Now let's say I decided to post this on the Internet and didn'twant anyone to notice it. You guessed it, I'd put it in black witha white background.

When I go shopping today, I'll pick up Pork & Beans Spam Toilet Paper A Nail File Two Tubes of Toothpaste Kitty Litter Peanut Butter Light Bulbs for the Refrigerator Paste Wax Rubber Bands Eighteen Frozen Pizzas for the Party next Tuesday Candles for the Romantic Dinner for Two on Wednesday Paper for the Adding Machine A pound of Three Penny Nails Eight Jars of Dippity Do

Black on white is a good choice. That's one reason why so much isproduced in that combination. However since it is so exceedinglypopular, if I knew the person with whom I was planning to share thedinner on Wednesday was going to check my website, then I wouldprobably do something like this:

When I go shopping today, I'll pick up Pork & Beans Spam Toilet Paper A Nail File Two Tubes of Toothpaste Kitty Litter Peanut Butter Light Bulbs for theRefrigerator Paste Wax Rubber Bands Eighteen Frozen Pizzas for the Party nextTuesday Candles for the Romantic Dinner for Twoon Wednesday Paper for the Adding Machine A pound of Three Penny Nails Eight Jars of Dippity Do

Right here I might add that color choice is a matter of taste. Theperson coming to dinner happens to love wearing purple, blue andblack color combinations, has a purple Toyota pickup with a blueinterior (powder blue to be exact.) However, I draw the limit atadding chartreuse accents to match his doorknob, dashboard controlsand steering wheel.
The fact that most of us shudder at certain color combinations ispartially cultural. The same color combinations happen all the timein flowers, rocks and on fish and birds. When we see them we thinkthey are beautiful.
If I thought my mother were going to read my web page, then I wouldprobably do this:

When I go shopping today, I'll pick up Pork & Beans Spam Toilet Paper A Nail File Two Tubes of Toothpaste Kitty Litter Peanut Butter Light Bulbs for theRefrigerator Paste Wax Rubber Bands Eighteen Frozen Pizzas for the Party nextTuesday Candles for the Romantic Dinner for Twoon Wednesday Paper for the Adding Machine A pound of Three Penny Nails Eight Jars of Dippity Do

How you use color is your own choice and no one else can force youto do it any particular way. My own color perception, although I amnot techinically color blind, is idiosyncratic enough that I willnot set down rules of good color use. I am also too anarchistic torepeat any such rules I have heard.
However, if one wants to just draw RGB values out of the air withgeneral purposes in mind, I have a few suggestions in the next page .