Color in Visual Design

Color blindness can affect the way people perceive colors. Red-green color blindness makes it difficult to distinguish the difference between red and green colors. Blue-yellow color blindness affects the ability to distinguish the difference between shades of blue and yellow. Total color blindness is the inability to see colors other than white, gray, or black.

Designers often use harmonious color relationships such as monochromatic, analogous, triadic, and tetradic to create color schemes.

The primary color in UX and UI design, is the dominant color a user will see when using the product. This term, used to differentiate primary, secondary, and accent colors in interface design, is a distinct term from the “primary colors” used to describe the color wheel.

Accent colors are used to emphasize sections, actions or text on an interface.

Color is used in visual design to communicate messages, evoke emotions, and create visual interest. It is an integral part of the visual design in many different mediums.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is a document that covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible.

The secondary colors in UI and UX design typically complement the primary colors and are used for secondary information in a design. This is a distinct term from the secondary colors used to describe the color wheel.

A color’s hue is the pure color, without any added white or black pigment.

Saturation is the measure of the intensity of a hue, measured from 0%, grayscale, to 100%, pure, vivid hue.