Comment by jakobegger

I spent hours / days to figure out a color palette for labels in an non-game app, and the result still looks like shit. I tried using kuler (Adobe Color now?) and it wasn't much help at all.

"Picking out a few colors" is not something that's easy if you are not an experienced artist.

Sure, he could probably learn to do it, if he spent some time learning how to do it, but he needs to budget his time, and he decided that story / gameplay is more important than fancy graphics.