Shannon Noack has published an article on how to use color theory in web design. After a quick review of basic terminology, she takes a look at some well known sites to see what colors they used, and what that means to viewers of the site. She takes a look at the White House web site, Amazon, Best Buy, Verizon, and a few others. Overall it is a pretty good read. From the article:
Unarguably one of the most important aspects of any design is its colors. Designers create the style of a site, as well as the movement it makes, the emotion it creates, and its purpose based largely upon the color choices they make. Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites.
I admire your writing and the way you explain things. Some of the comments on here too are insightful. I appreciate you. keep it up!and totally agree with the second comment above.
This is what I’ve been looking for. I really need this to know which colors best complement with each other.
Implementing color during web designing is the main part. Thanks for sharing this post.
Thanks for sharing Color Theory in Web Design. I will implemented this.
wonderful article, Thank you so much for introducing this to us. We have implemented this in a few of our client sites and they are very happy with the outcome. We are very satisfied with the work done as well.
A fascinating article and definitely worth bookmarking. It provides some good insight for internet marketing as well; how colors affect peoples moods etc, kind of like how red cars get more speeding tickets 🙂 I really like the aspects of matching different colors correctly. I often find it easiest to simply use different saturation levels of a single hue, but that can end up leaving you with a boring color scheme. Thanks for sharing this.
cheers,
jr