Color Theory
Articles about color theory, color models, and design principles.
30 articles
The Complete Color Design Glossary: 60 Terms Every Designer Should Know
Color has a precise vocabulary — and knowing it makes you faster, clearer, and more confident in every color conversatio...
How to Choose Colors for Infographics That Communicate Clearly
Infographic color is not decoration — it is structure. The colors you choose determine whether the data is understood at...
How to Use Color to Guide User Attention on a Web Page
Every page has a desired reading path — a sequence in which you want the user's eye to travel through the content. Color...
How to Create Color Harmony in Typography-Heavy Designs
Typography-heavy designs — editorial layouts, documentation, newsletters, and content-first products — place unique dema...
Color Trends in Logo Design: What's In and What's Out in 2025
Logo color trends shift more slowly than web design trends — but they do shift. Here is what is defining the current mom...
How to Build a Color Palette for a Mobile App from Scratch
Mobile app color palettes operate under constraints that desktop web design does not face — smaller screens, thumb navig...
Understanding Hue, Saturation, and Brightness: The HSB Color Model Explained
HSB is the color model that most design tools default to — and most designers never fully understand. Here is a clear, p...
Color Palettes for E-Commerce: How to Drive Trust and Desire
E-commerce color design has to solve two opposing problems simultaneously: building enough trust that users hand over pa...
How to Use the 60-30-10 Color Rule in Web Design
The 60-30-10 rule is interior design's most exported idea — and it translates directly to web design. Here is how to app...
How to Design with Color for Color Blind Users
Around 300 million people worldwide have some form of color vision deficiency. Designing for them is not a constraint —...
How to Present Color Palettes to Clients and Get Approval Faster
Client color approvals are where good palettes go to die — killed by indecision, subjective feedback, and the fog of too...
How Color Affects Conversion Rates: What A/B Tests Actually Show
There are thousands of articles claiming that red buttons beat green buttons, or that orange CTAs always win. Most are b...