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COLOR USAGE

Black

 

Black & White

Blue

1, 2

Brown

1, 2

Green

1, 2, 3

Grey

1, 2

Orange

Pink

1, 2, 3

Pink & Blue

Rainbow

Red

1, 2

Ultra Pop

1, 2

White

Yellow

DESIGN ELEMENTS & TECHNIQUES

3d Worlds

 

Atypical Navigation

1, 2

Badges

1, 2

Clouds

 

Collage

 

Distressed Design

1, 2

Drips Sprays & Splatters

1, 2

Got Wood «NEW»

1, 2

Gradient Madness «NEW»

1, 2

Hybrid

1, 2

Icons

 

Illustrated

 

Imitate Print

 

Let The Art Speak

 

Lightbox

 

Minimalism

1, 2

Nature

 

Old Paper

1, 2

One Page Sites

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Ornate Elements

1, 2

Ornate Backgrounds

 

Photographic Backgrounds

1, 2

Retro Style

 

Shiny Stuff

1, 2

Sketchy

 

Stripes

1, 2

Super Clean

1, 2

Tabs

 

Tiny Web Sites

 

Web Typography

1, 2

Ultra Zoom

 

Where Are We

 

SITE TYPES

Blogs

Designer Portfolios «NEW»

eCommerce

Webservices «NEW»

PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS

Columns

1, 2

Forms Part 1—Fieldsets & Labels

Forms Part 2—Fieldset & Label Samples

Forms Part 3—Required Fields

Forms Part 4—The Select Control

Forum Design

Link Fest

Logo Color Variations

TUTORIALS

Drips 1 - Blend If

Drips 2 - Colorize Sprays

Drips 3 - 3d Drips & Sprays

Stripes 1 - Basic Vertical

Stripes 2 - Random Stripe Patterns

Stripes 3 - Diagonal Stripes

 

© Copyright 2005 Design Melt Down

All Shades Of Green - Part 3

3rd edition — by Patrick McNeil — May. 19, 2006

Editions

123

The Design Element

Well green was the first category to get a second edition, and now it will be the first to get a third. I find it really remarkable that one color is used so much more then the others. It is a tremendously popular color. Is it the neutral nature of the color? The associations to nature and non-computer things that we love? What is it about this color that demands such usage. Yellow is an equally subtle color, why is it that you hardly see any designs completely based on it? I have been collecting yellow sites for a while and still don't have enough for one article. What ever it is, there is no shortage of green sites.

Connotations of green: Nature, environment, money, wealth, family, harmony, health, peace, posterity, soothing, relaxing, springtime, youth, humor, fun, happiness, life, growth, jealousy, envy, novice, restful, calming, balance, stability, summer, organic, recycled, plants, trees, fertility, fresh, good luck, and vigor.

Sample Usage

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Books

Designer's Color Manual The Complete Guide to Color Theory and Application

Color Index Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media

Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color

The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations 500+ Historic and Modern Color Formulas in CMYK

Links

ColorBlender.com (The best tool I have found for easily creating beautiful color pallets)

Color Scheme Generator
Color Blender (On MeyerWeb)
Color In Motion
Color Schemer online v2
Color Schemer Gallery
Color Symbolism
Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings

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Comments

Thanks to all the comment spammers with their spambots I have decided to close comments. I will reopen them after I restructure things so that I have to approve each and every post. I hate to do this, but I am tired of cleaning up spam!

Kieran Bowler

5/19/2006 1:11:19 PM

Rock on!

;)

www.MonsterMonster.co.uk

Harmony

5/20/2006 3:28:31 PM

Some great sites there, thanks :)! I've done a fair bit of research on color preferences / statistics and it seems that blue is everyone's favourite color, followed by green, and strangely enough yellow, orange and brown are everyone's most hated colors (in that order). It's only children who seem to really enjoy yellow and orange and their like of it decreases as they get older.

Lare2

7/6/2006 12:21:50 AM

Nice site, great info, lots of usefull resources on a very easy on the eyes deseign.

Congrats

Rachel

7/17/2006 6:54:53 AM

Here is a black & green site using collage... http://www.yeovil247.co.uk/

irene

7/27/2006 11:20:19 AM

:)

irene

7/27/2006 11:21:01 AM

www.imenez.net

fathima

8/2/2006 7:46:26 PM

Elixir's site took my breath away, maybe because it utilises the shine effect so well. But definitely also become of its animated fave icon. I didn't know that was even possible. Is it legal?