Also remember that some users might need to change to colors that a
designer might consider non-optimal.There's a strong belief that
dark-on-white text is best for screen, but for those of us that are
light sensitive, green or orange on black is best if we're manipulating
large amounts of t
On Jul 14, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Harikrishna VP wrote:
1) Can you please share some literature on usage of colors and
usability.
Molly Holzschlag has an awesome book on this topic. Unfortunately, I'm
writing from an airplane and don't have access to the interwebs, so I
can't cite the title.
I suspect the "google blue" meme you mention comes from here:
http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
which mentions the testing in terms of aesthetics, not download
speed.
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Hi All
To add on to Hari's question.
I recently heard in a conference the presenter pointing out that, google
tested different shades of blue for better download speed.
Does this make sense.
Regards
Sanu George
Welcome to the
(and just to add something constructive)
Check this out. Much more interesting color topic than talking about
download times.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/
- Richard
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Yes, the 25 or so extra characters (background-color:#00ff00;) will
add about 0.0003 seconds at 768 kbit/s broadband.
OOOoo.
- Richard
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Another endorsement of the NASA site... it's useful when dealing with
unenlightened execs as they see NASA as indisputably authoritative.
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A couple more links for you:
Colorblindness simulator:
http://colororacle.cartography.ch/
Accessibility in Interaction Design course at the Open University:
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2057
NASA/Ames Research Center - Designing with Luminance Contrast:
http://colorusage.arc.na
>From a purely graphic design standpoint it has been clearly proven
that black text on a white background is easier to read than white on
black. Anything in between the two would be a judgement call.
If you were mainly presenting video with a little text description a
dark background would focus t
One of the sites that talks on color and usability is :
http://www.colormatters.com/usability.html. You can also google for
more info on this topic.
About the color and download speed:
The fact is that any information over the internet is just binary
data that is processed via the user's computer
I go with joshua, lets take a vey simple case of background colour in
a simple html/css website. the background can be pumped from the css
and so i feel to my view colours (injected through the colour index
number) does not make any difference.
But with regards to perception, yes there is a whole
To clarify, the selection of one color over another doesn't affect
the size of the data, but the choice to specify color at all rather
than accepting the browser default color (white or gray) does affect
the size of data. But not enough to matter.
// jeff
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It shouldn't make any difference -- the "choice" of color does not
affect the size of the data being downloaded.
I do agree that there could be a user perception issue, depending on
how the delay in loading overlaid graphics, background images, etc
affects the order of rendering. For example, if y
Yes, the use of color does affect the download speed of a website.
Websites with color download more slowly than websites without color.
The hexidecimal values used to specify colors can contribute several
additional bytes to HTML and CSS files. But this difference is
infinitesimal and almost certa
Esteeemed members,
I have two information requests.
1) Can you please share some literature on usage of colors and
usability.
2) Also can you please share your knowledge on whether a color affect
the download speed of a website. For example does a white background
page load faster than a black b
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