RE: [WSG] Orange and Blue

[Ted Drake]

orange and blue are complementary colors and will grab your attention. It's why the colors are often used in sports. If you want to be really annoying, go with a  purple background with yellow text.   complementary colors are good in small doses, if you have a blue bar and want the purchase button to stand out, go for the orange color, we have this in a muted style at http://www.csatravelprotection.com. compare it to http://www.csavg40.com where the orange button doesn't stand out as much on the green side bar.   From a standards point, it isn't that significant. From an accessibility standpoint, you should be careful with some color blind people.  Green and red are complementary colors but of the same value, so they don't stand out much in black and white.   For more information on complementary colors, check out Color Theory by J. Itten. Its the bible for color theory and is available at your local library.   Ted http://www.tdrake.net -----Original Message----- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:17 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Orange and Blue Has anyone (else) noticed an increase in sites implementing primarily orange and blue color schemes?  Is this for accessibility or other considerations, or just the 2005 look?  It's getting annoying.