Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design is a concise article on what is possibly my favourite design element — colour. (For those of you who are not designers/artists of some description, and quite possibly some who are this may sound a bit mad). It's also an element that clients are very wary with and almost always go with the *
safeoption, ie blue grey and predominantly white — maybe a smidggen of orange or red.
When clients come to me asking for a new web site or interface they have such bold ideas for being fresh and eye catching, something with a personality of it's own. In the end all they seem to want is what's *
safeor what their competitor has with a slight twist. Colour is not something clients want to stuff up because it has such an immediate and emotional impact on how users see the company.
Yes sometimes
safecolours are appropriate, but it seems to me that this IS the sole reason they are often used, leaving us with some bland unmemorable designs, almost indistinguishable from one site to the next.
*Safe, ie neutral light colours that won't offend and in many cases don't impress either.
Have you seen Pixy's Colour Scheme Picker?
— posted by Red Wolf at 07.10.2003 14:46 AEST | 
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