Colors affect us in countless ways—mentally and physically, consciously and subconsciously. Psychologists have suggested that color impression can account for 60% of the acceptance or rejection of a product or service.
Good color choices should never be neglected in web design. A bad color combination can have the same negative effect as poor copy and slow load times. In this infographic, we will briefly discuss color coordination and how you can use this to your advantage when designing your site. Special thanks to @speckyboy, @smashingmag and @onextrapixel.
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Website Color Scheme Examples
Complementary Colors – Naturestable.com
Analogous Colors – Simplebits.com
Split-Complementary Colors – Finaltouchapp.com
Triadic Colors – 365daysofastronomy.org
Tetradic Colors – Floridaflourish.com
Square Colors – Panerabread.com
Yet another excellent post by KissMetrics Bloggers ;)
Thanks Benjamin! We appreciate that :)
Great tool from Adobe that will help you pick your colors: http://kuler.adobe.com/#create/fromacolor
Wow. That’s pretty cool. I never noticed that feature on Kuler before.
Great tips for website colors. I am going to feature this blog in my blog in this Friday’s Favorite Blogs Friday. You can get there by clicking on my name. Thanks, Kissmetrics, for your awesomeness!
Nice infographics!
Super like and shared it.
thanks for sharing.
Illustrators love color! Thanks for the links to the color tools. Your infographics rock.
Of course it is an art and is why only some pages look very beautiful and others ordinary. Colors appeal or don;t so you have to know the science of it.