Understanding Color Schemes in Web Design

Allen Smith      – Raleigh, NC
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Understanding Color Schemes in Web Design

There are various ways a website communicates or relays a message to visitors. One of the techniques used; in web design is the proper use of colors schemes.

Color is one of the mediums used in communicating and interacting with your visitors. The proper use of color schemes and pallets in your web design proves to give your website numerous advantages. The proper knowledge and use of color schemes creates a lasting impact, and influences the mood of your viewers and visitors. Colors are known to affect emotions, and persuade a visitor or customer to make a decision. The artistic use of colors schemes in web designs give the website a professional feel and directly provide your visitors and customers an apparent message of what your website or business is all about. Creating balance between color and content of the web pages, in your web design, attracts attention to customers and visitors. In addition, it assists in visualizing your website’s content, information, products, and services.

There are three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. These three primary colors together form harmony. Mixing any of the two primary colors produce secondary colors. For example, mixing blue and yellow will produce green. The understanding the various color combinations will generate a positive and lasting impact on your website. It is essential to apply this knowledge to your web design.

These colors below are associated to a number of the moods, attributes, and emotions:

The color red is associated to attributes and actions like courage, passion, persuasive, danger, and to stop. The color red is commonly used in text colors in words like, warning, danger, caution, hot, order today, etc.

The color blue is commonly used many web design templates. It acquaints with trustworthiness, accomplishment, genuineness, and serenity. Visitors and customers tend to trust your website, when the color blue is applied in the web design. A commonly used phrase in blue text is the mission statement and company history.

The color green indicates conservative sentiment and is associated with currency and sanctuary. Phrases in green text are, “Order here”, “We don’t gamble with your money”, and “Education”.

The color yellow is associated to motion. This color is excellent in creating banners and logos. The color yellow is rarely used in text, because it is hard to read on any background. Words associated with this color are, “Get it now”, “Hurry up “, “Fast”, and “Go”.

The color black is associated to darkness, despair, and high-tech. It is widely used in text colors for it is easy to read.

The color purple indicates justice and royalty. This color, on the other hand, promotes uncertainty and illness. Highlight the color purple with the words like, law, hierarchy, fairness, honor, and family.

Other colors that merit noting are neon colors and medium and neutral tones. The latter is associated to older audiences while the former is widely used for sites that cater to teenage visitors.

The use of color schemes properly and wisely, in web design, will improve the overall appearance of your website. It will also give it a more professional look, and helps in gaining heavy traffic.

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