Color plays an important part in a design. Colors evoke emotions, feelings, and ideas. Colors can also help strengthen a brand’s message and perception. Yet the power of colors is lost when a user can ...

Making websites accessible to users with disabilities – things like poor vision, blindness, limited dexterity – has been central to the mission of the web's overseers since the dawn of the browser.

Fixing color contrast issues should not take long. Ideally, you'll always use dark text on a light background or light text on a dark background. When you have a few minutes, identify a few pages at a ...

Clashing colors demand attention, with rooms that include them often seen as bold and challenging. On the color wheel, colors that sit opposite each other are considered contrasting, and therefore, in ...

Built by Giovanni Scala, a developer living in Italy, Check My Colours is a web app for finding out how accessible your site’s design is for users with color blindness. By comparing the foreground and ...

(Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design, written and researched by Pegie Stark Adam, a Poynter affiliate in the Visual Journalism area, and designed and produced by Anne Conneen, design editor at ...

I’ve written about developing color palettes before, but I want to focus more closely on color theory. Since I have been preparing for a presentation on color all week, it seemed like a good topic to ...

Color contrast is detected much earlier in the brain than previously thought, a new study shows. The research also confirms that the brain does most of the work in seeing the difference between colors ...