Questions tagged [color]
the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others
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Dark or white color theme is better for the eyes?
What is better for the eyes, a dark color theme or a white color theme?
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Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting purple banner?
I'm part of a MediaWiki site called D&D Wiki. Among others, one of our longstanding issues in the public eye was our failure to label clearly enough that certain pages are categorised 'Homebrew', ...
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What are the negative and positive aspects of dark color scheme?
I am using Light-on-dark color scheme (dark background with light text) in my application.
My question is, what are the negative and positive aspects of this color scheme and why this color scheme ...
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A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
I'm working as a front-end developer. I used to work on JavaScript technologies. But when it comes to UX and about choosing colors and stuff which I'm not able to understand well due to color ...
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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 #000000 black 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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Why is blue used so often?
I recently noticed a lot (maybe half) of my icons are blue, or in a faint shade of blue.
It's also true for the favicons in my browser bookmarks.
The new Windows 10 default wallpaper is blue, and ...
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What is the best color combination for on screen reading?
I work at an airline as a pilot and I am involved in the "paperless" project which aims to have no more paper in the cockpit - all the data should be accessible from tablet devices.
We have a lot to ...
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What effect would a grayscale color scheme have on UX?
I am thinking of designing a website that will have no color other than black, gray, and white (including links).
Will the absence of colors such as blue, green, etc. affect the user experience of ...
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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 include this option so it seems to be a ...
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Why is bright pink background a bad UX/UI?
A lot of people commenting on What color for error messages for a form with a red background? say that bright pink background is a bad UX/UI.
Is it true? Is using bright red/pink as a background ...
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What color for error messages for a form with a red background?
I have a big website with some forms.
There are four background-colours for the form components. One of them is pink/red.
Here the image and the error message:
I can't change the form background-...
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Why is blue used as a background color to indicate no signal?
To my knowledge most projectors' "No Signal" screen uses a blue background:
This might also apply to the legendary Blue Screen of Death
So why is blue the color of choice for such error messages?
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What are good colors for illustrating Up and Down?
Imagine a curtain, and two strings. Pulling one string brings it down, pulling the other brings it up. Usually in office environments, these two strings are the same color and this makes it so users ...
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Best color to display hot/cold but also on/off
I'm not really sure about some colours of one section of the application I am writing.
Basically, I need to have a section that displays if something is ON/OFF, but also HOT/COLD.
Now, usually, I ...
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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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Should hyperlinks be blue?
I've built a site where all hyperlinks have the default colors: blue for links, purple for visited links. They turn red on hover.
I believe that always using blue for hyperlinks is a good thing, so ...
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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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Down arrow and up arrow status
I have to make an iOS app, where there are categories and I have to show the decrease and increase in status of particular category.
For decrease I used a red down arrow. For increase I used a green ...
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Is the color red really appropriate for form validation errors?
It seems to be taken for granted that the color red is appropriate to highlight errors. In the case of serious system errors, I agree. However, I'm having doubts that it's the right choice for user ...
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How many visually distinct colors can accurately be associated with a separated legend in a figure?
For charts and graphs it's a relatively common question by programmers to want to procedurally generate an arbitrary number of colors that are visually distinct.
Various research (or educated guesses)...
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Having 4 colors in logo (like Google, Microsoft and eBay), for which kind of companies does work too? [closed]
Google, Microsoft, eBay (and some other corporate companies) use 4 colors in their logos: Blue, Red, Green and Yellow.
How does it help their branding? And for which kind of companies does it work. ...
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How to find a color scheme that's also useful when printed in black and white?
I'm looking for a 5 color color-scheme that also useful when printed in black and white, respectively gray scale.
The colors should be easily distinguishable from each other.
How can i do that?
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What is the color of artificial intelligence? [closed]
What is the color of artificial intelligence, or the color which represents AI in the eyes of general public?
What is the reason for that? Is there any sociological research on this or related topics?...
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What are good resources for testing UI design for color-blind users? [duplicate]
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How can I check if my user interface is suited for colorblind people?
I'd like to ensure that color blind users experience the UI with sufficient contrast between elements and ...
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What is the color associated with lukewarm?
I'm designing a web application that crowdsources user response to another user's initiative (or project idea). The overall user response to the initiative is represented using a status component with ...
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Colorblindness-friendly colors called "green", "blue", "yellow", and "red"
I need to choose a palette of four colors that satisfies the following two conditions:
Colorblind people can easily distinguish all four of the colors.
People with normal color vision can ...
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Formula for color contrast between text and background
In my Android app a user can choose the color of an item. This color is then shown in background with a text on it. I want to display the text either in black or white - depending on the background ...
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Dark on Light or Light on Dark? [duplicate]
For a very technical site documenting code, sharing code snippets, and documentation, I have been told that using dark fonts on light backgrounds is recommended for people being able to read the ...
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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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Why are most pens (that we use to write) blue in color? [closed]
Not a curiosity. I have emailed several ink and pen&pencil production companies and until now I didn't get any kind of logical answer. The question is why most pens contain blue color rather than ...
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Color picker - what to do if the user selects the same color as the background?
I am working on a app that has an area dedicated to color choosing, like so:
Now, ordinarily, this works fine, but what if the user chooses the same color as the background color? It would look like ...
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Color choice for maximum legibility of text on glass
In our office we have transparent glass doors and we want to put text stickers on them. For example, name of the person or room function.
The question is what color should be stickers to provide ...
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Choosing a set of colors [closed]
I'm not a graphic designer, and I can't afford one for my open source project, so I thought I'd crowdsource this one. I'm trying to work out a set of 6-8 easily-differentiable colors for categories in ...
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Displaying states of machines – Overview site
We need to display the state of some machines in our web application.
The machines can have about 8 different states.
Our idea is to make a site where the user can see all machines and their state.
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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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Should I switch to a dark theme UI if the app is used at night?
Should I dynamically change the theming of my application based on ambient lighting?
My app will be used in bright daylight, as well as in a dark movie theatre, or may be opened at night. I ...
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When to use white text on top of a color for readability?
I am setting the background of a textbox to some variable color.
I know the hex/rgb of the color I'm setting the background to.
Normally the text is black (or very very dark gray).
On some colors, it ...
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What is the most common color to indicate the input-field is disabled?
as I have been going through different references on input-field designs, I realized that people tend to flip-flop with grey or white background to indicate whether the input-field is enabled or ...
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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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Color of destructive primary button
In our app we use green buttons to signify primary actions (located on the right, but that's a whole different discussion) and grey buttons to denote secondary actions ('Cancel'). For example:
The ...
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Why do most financial apps use a black or dark background?
I was asked today to look into designing a stock monitoring windows 8 application and I was looking around for design ideas when I noticed an interesting trend where it seems like most of these stock ...
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How important is it to consider color for color blindness in a design
In response to this question about iconography, I was wondering about how much it is necessary to factor in color usability for people with color perception difficulties into a design.
The first ...
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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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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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Which is a good color for a pause button?
We have an application with a built-in stopwatch.
If the stopwatch is running the pause button is shown and if it is stopped the play button is shown. Currently the stopwatch itself as well as the ...
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Are there premixed Material Design color combinations I can use for prototyping?
I'm looking at this tool that allows to select material design colors and this document by Google that describes how to pick material design colors.
As far as I understand, I pick 3 primary colors ...
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Is colour alone enough to convey warning?
I'm designing page that has an alerts panel in relation to healthcare. I'm using a pale red to convey that action needs to be taken immediately, orange to show that something is due soon and green to ...
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Is red an acceptable colour for a submit button on a form for a purchase or booking?
I have been drafted in to provide UX feedback on a recently completed website. One point I made was that red was not a suitable colour for a positive action, i.e. completing a form. The reply cited ...
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How to determine whether links have enough contrast?
I find it very hard to distinguish links from normal text on Programmers Stack Exchange, especially visited links on wall-of-text posts. The colour scheme used is:
Background #fafafa (there's a ...
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Logical colors for a wireframe
I got a mail from a designer to do some wireframes. He has told me that the wireframe should have logical colors. Is there really some theory to the colors for wireframes?
I have made some ...