Colour schemes, TypeFaces

The next phase after I have my mock storyboards done was to look at colour schemes for my website. By looking at the other websites that I showed early I am a little bit confused on what way to do it as it the boley fair one was a template used and had a background image of floorboards and an old time newspaper and the colour for the text and images were black and white. I then decided to google colour schemes to see if it could help me any and i found this website http://www.colorcombos.com/

The colour scheme above doesnt really appeal to me at all as what i would hope to maybe include in this website was a bit of an old time look but in a modern way if you understand me. Yes i want the colour green in mainly because Irelands most dominate colour is green so i will look for something that has that colour involved in it. 

I felt from this website that even thought the colour schemes they provided  for you were ok they still werent what i was looking for so i went back to google and chose the next website available to me and that was http://colorschemedesigner.com/

What i found out from this website was that it allowed you to create your own colour scheme this i liked as it meant you could mix around with different colours that i thought would go well with my website. From attempting to create my own scheme i realised it was a lot harder to do than i gave credit to so instead im going to look at different colours separately so that i know what shade i want and then see if i can make them work together.

the greens above i like but the one in the middle is what i hope to use to bring the Irish feeling into it. this colour i feel is bright yet not to dark for the website and with the other colour that i had in mind i think it will go quite well.

The next colour i went to look at was brown, for some mad reason i have this colour in my head to represent the old part of this the culture part of it. the brown in the bottom right is what i am hoping to use but whether this will work out or not is a different story. but only one way to find out which is to try it.

The next part for me to research and try and decide upon is the typeface that i am going to use. Now because this is an irish site do i want to use an old time gaelic style of writing for it or not. the only thing i have against this type of writing is that i am trying to do an old style website but modernise it a bit as well so chosing these correctly is vital.

as you can see from above this typeface is nice yes but whether i could use it throughout the whole website or not is the next thing.

The typeface above i kind of like just because of the look of it, i feel it would give a more modern appeal to my website but whether the two of these typefaces will work will have to be seen later on.