How to Choose Your Website Colors

Before you can consider the key points of your design, you need to make major decisions. Some decisions are more important than the color scheme of your website will be used.

Pay Attention To Contrast

You must choose a color That provides enough contrast to make your text stand out in order to promote readability. Avoid using light colored font on a light background color because it would be very difficult to read. Remember you are the emphasis on getting your message read. Unread messages are useless messages.

Not Too Many Colors

You must select 3 or 4 colors for your site, and they only use the colors (or shades of those colors). Decide in advance which colors you will use, and stick to it.

Complementary Colors

Complementary colors are opposite each other on the color wheel. The 3 most common sets are:

* Red and green

* Blue and orange

* Yellow and purple.

The colors work very well together.

Complementary colors are also a good way to choose colors that will be easy to read with a certain background: look for the opposite color to maximize

Analog Color

Another approach to try to pick a color that is similar to the color of your play, which means that they are close on the color wheel. Red, for example, goes well with analog color, orange and yellow. If excessive, this can make your site look too bright, but in moderation the results can look good. It's no coincidence this combination often occur in nature.

Chromatic color

A personal favorite, chromatic colors use different shades and colors from one color to the entire design - nothing else except black and white. For example, you can use a light blue, dark blue and light blue together. This creates a sleek and professional appearance.

Take Colors From Nature

For inspiration for the color scheme, take a walk outside. Look at the plants, landscapes, and animals. Nature knows how to use colors - learn from it.

Color Blindness

Try to ensure that your design uses color to create a fun aesthetic properties, but does not depend on the color scheme for anything essential. Statistics show that perhaps 10% of web users are at least partially color blind, so you should consider these people when you are designing your site. Make sure they can at least read your text.