Color

Whether you’re defusing a ticking time bomb, or you’re trying to design a decent looking site, if you choose the wrong color, you’re doomed. Okay, so the wrong color selection for a client’s site might not be the death of you,

but it could curtail your budding career as a web designer.

Choosing colors is no simple matter. There are aesthetic, identity, and usability considerations to take into account. And, to make matters worse, most modern displays can render more than 16 million colors. That’s an infinite number of horrible color combinations just waiting to happen!

Fortunately, you don’t have to be a swatch book-carrying color consultant to make good color choices. A wealth of knowledge is available, from touchy-feely (as I like to call them) psychological guidelines to tried-and-true color theories that will help you to make the right choices when it comes to color.