the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others
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Resources on Distinguishable Colors? [duplicate]
For clarity, this isn't an accessibility question. I want the colors to be distinguishable from each other for differentiating items that will re-occur in a calendar.
I'm building an app where ...
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Easiest to read fonts
Has there been studies to determine what fonts make it easiest to read? I'm interested in the font type, but also size and color. For example, is dark gray better than pitch black?
Also of interest ...
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Changing a White Background to…?
I am in the process of creating a website. Currently the website has a solid white background with black text. However, on different monitors the white background can be blinding bright. I have ...
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When to display a link as a previously visited link?
Websites of today contains a variety of links including logo link, global and local navigation links, supplementary or related links, other header links, footer links, inline related links and more. ...
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What are best icons to identify/distinguish TCP and UDP connections [closed]
I have a desktop application that serves as a smart, software-based router. Each of multiple nodes in the GUI can be either a UDP or TCP connection. We have the following status icons for the node:
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automatically calculate contrast
A user can change the default design of his site by selecting a color. This color is applied to the menu background color. The problem is that I have to change the menu text color depending on the ...
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What is the validity of contrast and colours tests?
I just ran a contrast and colour test (using checkmycolours.com in this case) on our corporate site (www.dotblue.net; if you care) and it reports quite some failures. However, I explicitly optimized ...
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Change button for color input modes
I have this SWT widget (color picker) with label:
By pressing the star button, color picker field transforms into code field, where you can write code:
I am not satisfied with this "star ...
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What is the reasoning behind grayscale icons?
Quite a few web applications have started utilizing gray(black) scale icons, for example Github,new Google Analytics, etc. Even applications like Firefox 4, Chrome, IE9, iTunes, Mac OS, have dropped ...
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How do I edit these icons with Gimp? [closed]
I'm a developer, not a designer, but I have spent some time on Gimp and generally find my way around it.
I have come across a great, free set of icons from brankic, at http://brankic1979.com/icons/. ...
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Battery - what percentage range to use for each color?
I need to display battery with 3 colors: green, orange (or yellow?) and red.
This device's battery (like iPad, iPhone etc..) with a battery life of up to two days.
What percentage range to use for ...
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Red buttons in an e-commerce site?
I'm designing an e-commerce site with red buttons. It has a yellow/white background and it looks quite good that way.
Now, my boss finds the same, he likes it, but he is doubtful, because red could ...
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What to present when wrong log in information entered [duplicate]
In my sign in page I made it so that the page doesn't need to reload when the wrong password is typed (similar to Google's). What should happen when the wrong password is typed? Right now I have text ...
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How can I highlight errors when bright red is the main color of the brand?
I'm working on a mobile website for a client whose main brand color is red. The website header and headings are all red. CTA buttons are red too. How can I effectively separate errors (mostly in form ...
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Is it a bad idea to use grey buttons?
Our design team is thinking of using grey secondary buttons on our site. I'm concerned they may appear to be disabled to our users (especially when used with the primary orange buttons). There is a ...
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Is it helpful to colour-code different sections of a website?
A design pattern that's been around for a long time is the tendency to use different colours to demarcate different sections of a website.
For example, in the BBC.co.uk website, hover over the main ...
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Are there any colors that should not be used in UI design? [closed]
Are there any colors that should not be used in UI design? Which one(s)? Why?
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Which color swatches best help users filter products?
I'm currently working on a design for a product filter, and one of the attributes will be color. Products will have any of several dozen specific colours, but it makes more sense to give users a ...
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Monitors display more colors than human eye can distinguish
The human eye can differentiate about 10 million colors. A 24-bit display mode can produce about 16 million. Why, then, do operating systems have 32-bit and higher display modes if the apparent ...
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How to best communicate color names to users more clearly
Many times in using general color names in communication, i.e. Red and Green, users are confused when the color is a non-pure form of the color.
For Example, in referring to the Red-ish color of the ...
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Why are “Inverted Colors” considered an accessibility feature?
Why is it that in most Operating Systems the "Inverted Colors" display setting is considered an accessibility feature? Both Windows and OS X includes this option so it seems to be a recognized ...
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Effect on usability if I use green and red colors (for meaning) in an app whose color scheme does not include those colors?
I am working on an application that models physical hardware to the user. As such, showing things colored red seems to be a very natural way to communicate an error state, and showing them green ...
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Is it wrong to have your primary actions in red?
We're using red as the colour for primary Actions. This can be in the form of a button.
In terms of usability, what are the downsides. Are there any upsides at all?
An example for using red coloured ...
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Origin of “big green button”?
I found meme about big green button.
When people visit download sites (like software directories, file hosting sites, torrents, etc) after completing reading page title and deciding to download they ...
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Any UX logic for the background colors of iPhone text messages? [closed]
Is there any reasons why the background of iPhone (iOS) text messages is gray (for messages sent from others) and green (sent by myself)?
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Is there a 'science' to what colors to use on primary 'call-to-action' buttons?
I was wondering what research I can find on what colors to use for primary 'call-to-action' buttons. I know the size of the button and the contrast it has in relation to its background play a big ...
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How to visually indicate a change in setting
Suppose I have a settings screen where I have a table with a bunch of rows with checkboxes.
For example the default settings are:
| Name | Setting |
| A | on |
| B | off |
Then the ...
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Color on text area [closed]
I have a web application that works as a word processor/text editor with a text area for main input. It is designed through CSS. What background color is best to encourage the user to concentrate on ...
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Should I display a “not available” option in my key, even when I know it will never be used
I've got a site which sells lots of different products. Due to the nature of the industry, it is necessary that multiple products can be displayed on screen at the same time.
To save space, the ...
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What is the most effective color to be used on notifications?
I need to choose a color to be used with notifications. I was placing an exclamation mark over a red circle, but I was told it looks more like an error if you haven't seen it in the UI before. So now ...
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Is this hard to read?
This is a snippet on a site i have just been building. I considered the readability etc, and the corporate colours, and tried to work with them.
Actually, I find it quite relaxing to read and view, ...
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Does a text editor on a dark interface need to use a black page?
I'm doing a dark interface for a program that includes a text editor. While the program uses different shades of dark grey and blue, my main "page" is currently white. This is positive because:
The ...
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What rules does Google use to make a button gray, blue, or red on their sites?
This has been an elusive topic, and I haven't yet been able to form my own conclusion about what Google's reasoning is to make a given button blue, red, or gray, given their latest design ethos. Take ...
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Best way to add extra information to a log table?
In a web application, I've just added a log tables that displays chronologicaly the last events that are monitored by the application.
Those events are of two main types: inputs and outputs.
In ...
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Should we risk using colors other than blue in Web apps?
Trends: New Colors (we’re looking at you, #00A0D1)
If there’s one thing that’s been stagnant in the design community, it’s the originality with colors. Sixty percent of the applications on my ...
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Color schemes for text ads
What are the most effective color schemes for text ads? Google's default is blue for headlines, black for body texts and green for links.
The Norwegian Color Empire gave the "Color of the year" award ...
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Alternative to color code in table cell
I am currently redesigning an LOB application that makes use of color coding in tables to 'categorize' each row of data.
For instance, in the picture above, the 'St' column (which stands for ...
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Best Way to Darken a Color Until it is Readable?
What's the best way to darken a color until it is readable?
I have a series of titles which have an associated color, but some of these colors are very light and any text drawn in them is unreadable. ...
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Dark labels or light labels
Just wondering what your opinions are on html forms. Is it better to have a light coloured label and a dark coloured value or the other way round, a dark label with a light value?
What are the ...
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How should I format question-response sections in a document?
I work on proposals that need to be formatted in question-response sections. Currently, we use different colors to distinguish between questions and responses. However, members of my team want to make ...
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Is there a problem with using black text on white backgrounds?
Why do a lot of websites use a text color other than #000000black when the background is white?
For instance, this text will be displayed using a dark grey:
.post-text {
color: #333;
}
Have ...
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Placement of Buy now/Download buttons
Hello respected UX community,
I am working on a new website which will be used to sell a software application, but will also have a free limited version of it (not time limited, but feature limited). ...
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Choosing high contrast text color (in relation to background color) dynamically
My application has an area with some number of controls. Each control's background color expresses a state of some sort. The controls are also numbered via some text in their foreground. For ...
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Completely redesign a website every so often? Good or bad?
The Managers where I work tend to want to redesign the website every year or so. Different layouts, color schemes, etc.
I think they look at it so often they want to freshen it up and give it a new ...
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What color should an add row template be?
I have a large grid. At the top is an add row template for adding another record. I want to differentiate it with making it stand out too much and drawing the eye constantly towards it. The rest of ...
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Why are most social networking sites in blue?
Why do most social media websites use blue as the main color? e.g., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, foursquare, ...
I am only interested in answers based on some scientific research.
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Dashboard and its overall simplicity [closed]
I would like some feedback and suggestions on overall look and feel of this dashboard mock-up for a file-sharing site. I do personally think that there is an over use of gray.
The project is for a ...
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Should a multinational website background color be a conscious choice?
We know that colors represent different things in different cultures, and selecting the wrong color can have unexpected and unwanted effect on how we present our organization. Gaming sites such as ...
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how to get the colors list of a website? [closed]
how to get the colors list of a website?
sometimes I see some beautiful website, they are colored view look,I want to anylize what colors is it used.then record color to photoshop for mysef later ...
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What's a good modification/alternative to differentiating categories by colour when the number of categories grows large?
We have an application in which users carry out similar tasks on different types of reports. As such, the user's first interaction with the app is to select a Report Type. To make it easy to tell at a ...
