colours

Hi, I am choosing my site colors. What do you think?


links
Titles
Text
rollovers

Could be good, what background colour will they go on?

make sure you stick with the same few colors, with exceptions, i almost never go past 3.
remember to contrast also, a light blue like that could be good, but if on say a white background, it would be hard to read.

The white of "rollovers" is almost impossible to read; personally I always stick to blue/purple for links - it's instantly recognisable.

One serious thing though - using red and black in combination is problematic, because people who have protanopic or deuteranopic colour blindess cannot distinguish between them - they see red as black or dark gray. So make sure that the information you convey with colour is also conveyed in another way - such as italics, boldness or size.

i didnt even see the white rollovers! :eek: :eek: :eek:

this is on a grey bg. my bg is black, like this text. thanks guys

Originally posted by mattover-matter
my bg is black
Oh well cool .. we didn't know that. That being the case, definitely don't use dark red text - it will be completely or virtually invisible to the colourblind.