In today’s lecture, we looked at colour, how to make it work appealingly in design, what colours mean in different cultures and in general how to communicate effectively with them.
Colour in design may pose an issue for many people; people with colour-blindness are the most obvious, however, people with poor eyesight or dyslexia would also benefit from thought-through colour schemes.
Things like low contrast typography or similarly coloured elements may look aesthetically pleasing, but may make processing the information shown difficult or impossible for many people.
Through my own research and the information covered during the lecture, I learnt a couple of vital tips for keeping my typography accessible.
And many more, including things such as keeping assistive tech in mind, making sure headings and paragraphs are put in logical and clear order and in general making your website/app/design easy to understand.
During the lecture, we specifically focused on colour-blindness. Using a website called Toptal, we explored how people with different forms of colour-blindness see websites we use every day.
For this, I decided to use the Lego website as it’s full of reds and yellows, which are the most common colours not to be seen by people with colour-blindness.
Seeing the difference made me actually consider how my designs, which tend to lean towards warm colours such as reds and yellows, may be inaccessible to many people, which I have not previously thought about.
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