From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 17:53:28 PDT
In the message "[Webnet] graphic design...?", dated 2002-07-25, Debra
Goldentyer wrote:
>I feel very weak when it comes to visual look and feel of
>websites--what colors look good with other colors, etc. Apparently
>pink and purple is no longer mod?
An excellent tutorial article on color - both on and off the web - is:
Robert Hess
"Wheel of Color"
August 14, 2000
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnhess/html/hess08142000.asp>
This article directly addresses the issue of how to most
effectively combine colors for various purposes.
Also, you might keep in mind that a (perhaps non-trivial) minority
of your site's visitors may have color vision anomalies. The
following article provides an overview of various color combinations
to select and avoid:
University of Minnesota
"Accessibility of Information Technology"
http://cap.umn.edu/ait/Web/Font.html
And the following page offers more detail regarding these anomalies:
"Safe web colours for colour-deficient vision"
http://more.btexact.com/ces/colours/
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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