Accessibility and Color Contrast
When we choose colors for the website, we have to make sure that the contrast if sufficient for the website to looking visually appealing. Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide specific contrast ratio recommendations. We can use some online tools that can help us to understand the accessibility standards.
- Consistent Branding: If you’re designing for a company that already has a brand, use colors that match what they already use. Using the same colors on the website, logo, ads, etc. helps people recognize the brand. Use the main brand colors, secondary colors, and accent colors in your design. Look at the brand’s style guides to get their color rules right.
- Typography and Color: Its quite important for Colors and fonts, that both should work well together for easy reading. For the safe side dark text on light background, or light text on dark background will be a very good choice. Headlines can use bold, bright colors to get attention. But body text is best with colors that aren’t too strong, to make reading easier. Make sure text and background colors contrast enough. Avoid soft, hard-to-read text. Use color carefully, mainly to highlight important text parts.
How to Use Colors in Web Design
In this article, we are going to learn about the Colors that are used in Web Design. Talking about colors, that is an important part of web designing and other aspects too. With the help of a good combination of colors, we can convey our message to the users, that is what a website is all about, what its purpose is, and what it wants to serve or sell. So We will see some important concepts regarding colors and also see some of the most frequently used terminology regarding colors.
Use of Colors in Web Design