But What If I'm Color Blind?

Color still matters. Actually, more so when someone is color blind because colors can easily mix together. Aside from that, the articles today helped showcase the importance of color usage and how it pertains to the online world. Yes, it's not just interior designers that use color wheels anymore.

Color Theory of Designers: Part 1 The Meaning of Color - This is actually the part of webdesign that I enjoy the most. This website is very useful in that it takes a lot of primary colors and actually shows examples of how they are used correctly in webdesign. For example, the color yellow expresses excitement. It can also be used in a very tasteless way. Yellow is a tricky color, but the example that they used shows that yellow can show cheerfulness.

Basic Color Theory - If you've taken any graphic design class, you better know the basic color theory. But if not, this website does a great way of explaining it. Typically, designers pick colors across from each other on the color wheel because they work in harmony with each other. Yes, that sounds like a really cheesy way of saying it, but they can work well if they are used right. However, I would never pair red and green... Sorry father Christmas, but those colors only work well one month of the year.

The Meaning of Colors - Bookmarked this page for sure. It's amazing how different colors will mean different things to people. For example, most of us probably knew that the color red shows lust or anger, but did we know that it is the most powerful wavelength of the rainbow? I also learned a while ago that colors that might mean something in our culture may mean something completely different in another country.

Color Matters: Color as Trustworthiness Cue in Web sites - Color can easily show the credibility (or lack of) of a certain designer or company. Blue is a color that designers use a lot of because it is authoritative and professional, yet it can still be soft and pleasing to the eye. This can actually be taken into the context of work attire too. You wouldn't wear bright canary yellow to an interview, would you? No, you would wear blues, greys, or blacks.