Color
Combination Guide
Colors are playing important roles in our daily life. Every
color has its benefits to humans. There are many colors
around us and every person sees these colors in different
patterns. All persons use these on different places and
get satisfaction. Both men and women, children and old persons,
wear different color clothing that changes their looks from
others. Color impacts one’s life, one who has bad
choice in coloring has bad impact on others. There are many
websites are helping in choosing colors to persons. These
websites are really serving to humans in choosing color
combinations because these have a great collection of colors
combinations. For get riding and coping this problem this
website has colleted a great number of colors which are
helpful for those who interest in the field of color, for
example this website is helpful for those who are web designers,
or other designers who want to choose the color combination.
Color
combination guide (part II)
There come many occasions at where to choose color become
very difficult or to make new color combinations. At these
occasions there is much need of just idea about either to
choose or new making the color combinations especially for
the web designing. There are many helpful tools which helping
to web designers to build the websites.
In this article, you will find designs created with workable
color combinations. Each picture includes hex numbers so
that you can try them in your designs.
Choosing Colors for web design
There are many people visit your website, your idea usually
wrong about how many visitors are visiting your website.
The concept of counting the visitor became, but in early
days it was so simple, then it made the counting colorful.
But it should remember that to use of colorful counting
for the colorblind and non-colorblind persons, to usage
the color combinations that must not hit or pain to visiting
persons.
Importance of Colorblind while designing
the Website
There are four following reasons that are considered during
the designing the website for the visitors including colorblind
persons as well.
(1)
An accessible website is more likely to be ranked
well with the search engines than an inaccessible website.
(2) By designing a colorblind accessible
website, you are also targeting PDAs, 3G phones, and similar
technological devices that are used for web access.
(3) It is seen as more professional to
have a website that doesn't exclude the impaired or disabled.
(4) Equal access to everyone regardless
of their abilities is always a nice things to do
4 KINDS OF COLORBLINDNESS TO CONSIDER
There are four kinds of colorblind which are considered
during the websites.
There are
(1) Trichromat Vision
"normal" color vision, uses red/green/blue color
receptors ... this is the kind of vision that 11 out of
12 visitors have.
(2) Anomalous Trichromat Vision
Anomalous Trichromat vision, uses three color receptors
but one pigment is misaligned
There are four kinds of this vision
a. Protanomaly Vision: reduced color red sensitivity
b. Deuteranomaly Vision (most common): reduced color green
sensitivity
c. Tritanomaly Vision reduced color blue sensitivity
(3) Dichromat Vision
Dichromat vision, uses only 2 of the 3 visual pigments -
red, green or blue is missing
(a) Protanopia Vision: unable to receive color red.
(b) Deuteranopia Vision: unable to receive color green.
(c) Tritanopia Vision: unable to receive color blue.
4) Monochromat Vision (can see only one color)
Color
combination for colorblind persons
There are many responsibilities of the web designer in which
he/she must have to consider the color blind persons. He
should limit his/her plate of colors during designing the
web site. There are many ways to learn about it but Learning
what color combinations are "no-no's" is a great
place to start, because without this you will get nowhere.
A web designer needs to remember to stay away from Red and
Green color combinations. Although most people see Red and
Green as contrasting, those with Anomalous Trichromat Vision
Colorblindness (the most common type) will not be able to
tell these colors apart. This also goes for combination
with variations of green and red, including colors such
as purple and orange.
Color contrast is important.
Design contrast is important when
designing for the colorblind.
It is necessary that you prioritize your website's content
to find the most important content. The more important the
content, the more necessary that it will be to make these
items colorblind-safe. The most important aspects of a website
are navigational text (includes image and button text),
menus, headers, and subheaders. Make sure that these items
are very high in contrast...this means that you should either
make these items black and white or opposite ends of the
color saturation pole. It should also consider background
and dark text, but it can also to use the colors surrounding
of the pages of the website.
If you aren't sure if a page is contrasted enough, one good
tip is to desaturate your website (save first) in Fireworks
or Adobe Photoshop and see if the images still have an impact.
Desaturating the image will remove all the color from the
image and this way you will be able to tell if the image
has enough contrast without color to be seen.
