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the choice of colors used in design for a range of media

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Dark admin theme - is it wise?

Would it be wise to create a dark-themed admin screen? As in not just the header/footer/menu area is dark (eg, black / dark grey), but the areas where content are as well. Does it put more strain on …
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Selecting easily distinguishable colors

I am writing a game and I need a choose a color for each player. The colors need to be easily distinguishable so that a human can identify the player by the color relatively easily. I need about 20 co …
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Red and Green for Open/Closed and Busy/Available

I am facing an interesting issue when realizing an interactive map for one of our customers - an airport. The map is showing real-time information about the current status of the infrastructure - for …
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Is it a good idea to use colour-pickers on websites?

Is it a good idea to have a popup menu on a website, where a user can change the overall colour scheme of a website, as in logo, fonts, background, everything? This would be in a web application, not …
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Colors for the date period

I'm want to emphasise date period(2 dates: start and end) in table cell. Usually it's green for start and red for the end, but I believe it'll be too distracting...
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Why most of online trading platforms use Red and Green for buy and sell buttons?

I'm working on an online trading platform and my client wants to change the buy and sell buttons to neutral color instead of red and green and I can see most of the platforms use red and green. Is the …
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Do colors red and green necessarily signify opposites

In some cultures red signifies stop and green go - stop and go can be considered opposites. Is it really different in other cultures? But suppose I wanted to show a screen with only two buttons, pos …
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Does a color scheme that reduces brightness contrast while maintaining hue contrast reduce e...

Solarized is a color scheme for editing code that reduces brightness constrasts while maintaining hue contrasts. It claimed that this reduces eye strain. Is there value in optimizing a color scheme …
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Backend Order Status colours - any ideas on best practice?

I would like to know if anyone has any ideas on how best to style up an eCommerce orders grid. (Magento). The idea is that the orders that are new and requiring action get highlighted, the ones of con …
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Range of Colors to Represent Values

I have an application which draws a colorful bin, with different colors representing different values. Originally (right side of image), I was using a scale which started with a lighter color, and …
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Usage of color and other UI elements in a diagram with two categorizations

Following diagram represents results of election, grouped by province, and then by parties. Interactivity is also introduced for hovering over legend, as displayed in the picture: (here is also live v …
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Color coding Alerts

I am having some issues with a project alert colors. I am having two cases that starts an alert. One is if the value is over 40 and one is over 45. Reaching the 40 value is a really bad thing and …
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Why are all screens of SpaceX dragon control panel blue themed?

All the interfaces used in SpaceX dragon have a blue themed interface. I'm just curious as to why specifically blue and dark interface? Apart from blue being a sign of trust, not sure what other fact …
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How do I find multiple variation of same color which are visually contrasting

I am developing some kind of heatmap for a stock market-related project which has ~80 large to small boxes on the screen to denote a stock and it's change I use a red background on box to denote loss, …
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Colour scheme for two distinct sets of 5 items on a map

I apologize for the utter simplicity of this, but it is beyond me. I am using a Leaflet and Leaflet.markercluster to add markers to a map. The latter helps resolve clutter by grouping icons near to e …
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