LESSON 08 – LOOK AND FEEL

LOOK AND FEEL

The look and feel of a website is affected by many elements including font, images, content, website title, background and font size. However, probably the two most important factors are colour and layout.

COLOUR

SCIENTIFIC VIEW

Light, as well as some other forms of energy, travel as a wave. The distance between the peak of each wave is called the wavelength.

Different forms of light have different wavelengths. So our eyes and their colour vision are really tools that detect the wavelength of light coming at us.

Scientists believe that colour vision was a key in finding food (ripe vs not ripe). Some now suggest that it may have been a key to understanding other humans’ feelings and situations (blushing, sick = pale, …).

COLOUR SITE

COLOURS ON THE WEB (http://www.colorsontheweb.com)

a) This site offers a color wizard application (see screen capture below) that gives you different sets of great looking colours! Pretty sweet!

b) This site also offers a contrast analyzer that checks text colour versus background colour to be certain that the contrast is enough to allow for comfortably reading.

c) Another tool randomly generates colours and shows how they would look when combined on a website.