Today’s goals:

• Discuss color theory and use of color in web design

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 Use of Color for Communication and Visual Effect

• Questions to consider: How do you pick colors for your website? How do you choose colors that “go together?” How does color affect a user’s impression of your website? How can you effectively use color to communicate your website’s goals or message?
• Global color survey: https://www.colorcom.com/global-color-survey. Does anything surprise you about the results? Quick overview- use of warm, cool, and neutral colors. Do now in pairs at your table: find a site or app that has a warm, cool, or neutral color scheme. Why do you think the site or app chose those colors?
• Psychology of color: Let’s review the main points from this article.
• Color techniques: Monotone, Duotone, Gradient, and Overlay. Let’s look at examples of each in this article and then you and a partner will be asked to find an example (website or app) that uses one of these techniques.
• Help with colors: This site, https://coolors.co/app, will help you create a color scheme to use for your website. You can even generate a color palette from an image, which could come in handy if you’re building a site from scratch and have been given a logo or header image to start. This site, https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/, has an interactive color wheel to help you choose colors based upon their position on the color wheel (contrasting colors, similar colors, complementary colors,
  etc.)
• Questions from the beginning- let’s see if we can answer them now.