Color contrast refers to the difference between the brightness of the background color and foreground color of digital content. It’s crucial in design, art and visual communication as it affects ...

Finding the right color combination can take a design from “OK” to “amazing” pretty quickly, so it’s important to find colors that not only don’t clash, but bring out the best in each other. Enter ...

Color plays an important part in a design. Colors evoke emotions, feelings, and ideas. Colors can also help strengthen a brand’s message and perception. Yet the power of colors is lost when a user can ...

(Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design, written and researched by Pegie Stark Adam, a Poynter affiliate in the Visual Journalism area, and designed and produced by Anne Conneen, design editor at ...

Ensure sufficient contrast. Do not display important content using colour alone (e.g. colour legends for diagrams). The requirements for the use of colour and contrast are the only aspects of ...

Fixing color contrast issues should not take long. Ideally, you'll always use dark text on a light background or light text on a dark background. When you have a few minutes, identify a few pages at a ...