COLORIn Web Design

Designing with Color• Use contrasting colors • Using a small palette of colors helps

unify and enhance a design• Using a dominant color theme

throughout a site helps unify and enhance a design

• A good plan in design is to create the design without color first, then add as little color as you can to enhance the design.

Use of Color in Web Design• Backgrounds • Text and foregrounds • Images • Links• Accents

Add color to Web Pages by…• Changing style properties including:

– Foreground colors on text (font color)– Background colors on the entire page

and/or tables – Border colors around tables and images

• Color can also be added to Web pages with images.– JPEG images for photographs and

images with millions of colors – GIF images for flat color images.

• Distinguish between non-visited and visited links.– Underline links to provide accessibility for

those who are color blind.

Color on Web Pages can be limited by….• Browser Capabilities

– Browser safe palettes include 216 colors

• Monitor Capabilities

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