Comments on: Color 101

By: jrico

jrico — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:09:23 +0000

Great post and blog.

Thanks a lot for your effort Josh.

By: UX-admin

UX-admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:42:05 +0000

Ironically enough, even after all that discussion about color, the text background on Your website is WHITE. Yes, that very same White, whose frequencies hurt human eyes and sight.

Why would You NOT set the background to Gray, when it is known that Gray RESTS the eyes?

And why is everyone on the “me too” bandwagon with the horrible white as a background?

By: Developer Dude

Developer Dude — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:06:31 +0000

I am always dismayed when I see very high dollar websites by major companies (Fortune 100) and yes many developers, ignore some basic rules with regards to color, especially readability. How many website do you see with yellow text on a blue background and similar usability faux pas. Hell, this very blog – look at the text of the comments – moderately dark blue on a light blue background? At least it isn’t the inverse.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:48:43 +0000

One thing about color has always baffled me – how does a projector create black? I have a projector aimed at an off white screen. The projector uses light from a bright bulb to create colors. How does that projector create black on a white background when black is the absence of light? I have tried to look up the answer more that once using google but have never come up with an answer no matter how I worded my query.

By: Danielle Renee'

Danielle Renee' — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:59:59 +0000

I must admit the word sea glass was the buzz word that led me to this article however, I am drawn to much that is written here. I now realize I need to make some changes to my website. Thank for article. Points well taken.

By: Peter Becker

Peter Becker — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:43:28 +0000

“The first thing to remember is that color doesn’t really exist.” — that’s a statement that can start a deep ontological discussion :-) I personally still doubt Descartes’ existence.

By: Pedro Duque Vieira

Pedro Duque Vieira — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:39:21 +0000

Hi josh, great article!

What I would like to see next is, the next step to creating a custom skin. That is, using swing or JavaFX show an example of creating a skin based on a color scheme. That would be great, I think.

Thanks for this great blog,
Pedro

By: Tbee

Tbee — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:49:47 +0000

Very interesting and finally I understand why green used in monitors unstead of blue.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:16:41 +0000

Surely it’s the Americans that felt colour is less important by dropping the ‘U’ :-)

By: Steven Herod

Steven Herod — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:18:40 +0000

Great article, I’d never really understood HSV up until now.

This is a good place for picking color schemes: http://colorschemedesigner.com/