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Web Design

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Colors

Colors play a very import part of the web design. Choose a simple color palette and stick to it throughout your website.

  1. Choose only two or three basic colors with one or two accent colors.
  2. Create a strong contrast between a page's background and its text.
  3. Be sure to take into account people with visual disabilities.
    1. Old or. Young People
    2. Men or Women
    3. The meaning of the Colors
  • Hue - the tone/color name
  • Monochromatic - uses tints and shades of one hue
  • Analogous - colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel
  • Complements - colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel

Color Models

  1. CMYK - acronym for Cyan, Magenta,Yellow, and blacK and is usually used for printing color on paper. It uses light that reflects off the surface of a printed page.
  2. RGB - acronym for Red, Green, Blue uses the primary colors of light and is used for web design and screen viewing.
    1. RGB colors for websites are written as hexadecimal numbers which are made up of 6 characters; two characters for each color (Red, Green, Blue). When both characters in a pair match, it can be abbreviated; for example: #003366 can be written as #036.
    2. Web safe colors are developed through conversion values in hexadecimal. There are 256 web safe colors. Browser Safe Colors
    3. Hexadecimal Percentage of Light
    00 0%
    33 20%
    66 40%
    99 60%
    CC 80%
    FF 100%
  3. When designing websites, it is better to use the hex number for the color rather than the word.

Color Wheel

The color wheel shows the RGB colors as well as the complementary colors: CMYK.

RGB color

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