I remember some of the first colour schemes that rattled around the web back when it was still in nappies. There were phases as there always are with design. Some good and some down right nasty waves of band wagon design, litter the path of the web. Does anyone else remember the red and black obsession which was later revived with the matrix plague? How about the magnolia inspired beige phase? Or the time when being corporate meant being blue and grey?
A current trend seems to steer from this though. It seems currently it is not colours as such but hues. I myself subconsciously appear to have joined this fashion. Perhaps this is not the bad thing I am suddenly assuming though. As I have before stated now with the freedom from the web safe strict pallete the options have opened up. How much is dependent on what school of thought you follow. With this has come the move towards colours as accents and hues. This is simply because before designers could not use them and also to the fact that this is one way to make damn nice looking sites.
Traditionally the freedom was only beheld by graphic designers. The web designer almost a poor cousin half breed between geek and designer. Now though a web designer has been accepted as a true clan designer member. About time really. With this final recognition has come an increased confidence and exploration of web design as a form. To me it is a good thing and something I welcome (I welcome so much lately). There is a change in the bias and as a web designer you can hold your head up high and proclaim "I am a proper designer". The amount of times web designers were labelled by some uneducated thug as not "a proper designer" are fading. This can only be a good thing.
