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: How did Pink get associated with feminine beauty to begin with? Women's History Month began this week, and gender equality is booming more than ever. Many brands are attempting to show support.

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: Why designers avoid black as main text color? Is there any reason for this? At first sight this is strange. It is like avoid white color. Any ideas?

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: How to argue for color choices? I'm primarily a UX/Interaction Designer, however, since I'm working for a fairly small company I'm having to overlap to graphic and visual design. I'm fine with

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: Adjusting generated colors to make them more subjectively pleasant Is there any formula or correction values for r, g, b channels, that takes into account visual perception of color and will

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: How to change the color of text to the mix of other colors (other part of image)? I'm trying to make a text like this one here in Photoshop and i have no idea how to do that. If this

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: Mixing cmyk colours I have a cmyk colour of 0,40,50,0 I want to change the magenta value, the 40%, to redder colour 0,67,70,28 And see what the resulting CMYK colour is. How I can go

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: Slider and Page background blend together, Ideas? I am working on a slider for a blog post and I have a problem I have run into a few times. When making a slider with the same background

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: Why does an almost solid line appear in this image? I am learning how to use python's pillow library to produce images, and for a test I made it produce a 256*256 RGB image with each pixels

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: Is there a standard set of colour-blind friendly, mutually contrastive colours? I need at least three colours that are easy to tell apart. The obvious choices seem to be some form red, green

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: CMYK colors dont add up to 100% ? Whats the trick to mix a color? I have a formula for mixing a CMYK-OGV color that I want its C:0,M:16,Y:0,K:0,O:0,G:0,V:0. I got my formula from the Pantone

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: What is the underlying pattern in the "oxygen colors" palette? One of the built-in color palettes in Okular is "Oxygen Colors". Looking at subsequent HSV/RGB/HEX values I didn't notice an obvious

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: How to come up with color palette for a game I am trying to come up with a color palette for my game. The game is similar to Hearthstone (trading card game). I have broken down the requirement

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: How can I create a color palette with the same saturation levels as a particular color? Say I have #FF3154 (as red). How could I come up with palette in which all the colors (different hue,

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: Algorithmic heuristic for whether white text is unsuitable for a given background I'm aware that manual selection based on human judgement will always trump a heuristic algorithm for things like

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: Making semi-transparent colors on top of solid colors just like any other solid color Is possible to have a semi transparent box on top of a another box that have solid color has the same

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: Two-dimensional divergent color scheme? I have some data I want to represent on a choropleth. It's a divergent data vector, but the data has an additional dimension that is a 2-value factor.

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: User Input Color Restrictions What is an appropriate restriction to place on a color gamut for user defined colors? I am helping build a website that will offer organizations to create their

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: How to choose the right color shades/tints for branding? - Part 2 I sincerely apologise for the duplicate question. I'm not sure how to add to the discussion on the original, and I don't have

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: What is the best shade of grey for hovering over black? What is the best shade of grey for hovering over black in a Middle-age-themed website. Preferably, answer with the exact 16-bit name.

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: Trying to find the perfect color for a readable font with a difficult multicolored background Trying to find the right color font that can be seen with this background image. Our color profiles

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: Are there any colors besides black that will work with the tetris palette? The palette consists of blue, green, purple, red, orange, yellow, and cyan. I've been trying to generate background

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: How do you find an inverse colour? In printing, CMY are the inverse colours of RGB (possibly not in the right order!) and in light a colour negative is made up of the inverse colours of what

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: How do you choose 'light' and 'dark' shades in Google Material Design From the Material Design docs: To create contrast between elements, you can use lighter or darker tones of your primary

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: How to use color palette for Ux and UI design? I am totally newbie in graphic design which from Mobile development.I recently take a look at UX design for mobile. I see the material design

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: Should designers use different color palettes between two separate apps under the same brand? I am doing design work for an app that serves two different purposes, one part is for permanent

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: How to choose font color against yellow background? There are similar questions like this and this. However, this question is different because of different design constraints. This is the interface

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: A tool to create a color scheme for printing I'd like to have a color scheme for printing plots, that would look 'nice'. So, I need as set of, say, 10 easily distinguishable colors that would

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: Number of colour palettes when branding a company Context I'm creating the branding for a company. The company's main product is a web portal where customers have a collection of functionalities.

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: Confused over hue, saturation,luminosity I am trying to make sense of luminosity, hue, saturation and color. I read this online: Hue, saturation and value together make a color. But hue is also

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: How to decide on a color pallet for an application? How does one decide which color pallet to associate with an application? How do you make color communicate tone of app? Deciding one color

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: Core color theory books books for UI/UX specialist I'm a newbie at design. I'm a front-end developer mostly working at tech issues rather than business or design. I really want to get some

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: How to use colour scheme and select colours for web Some of the clients have very bad logo colours, which are nightmares to develop or design websites for these kind of clients. Also, some

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: How come Facebook's logotype is blue? Why is Facebook's logotype blue? Was there any special reasons for blue being choosen as the color of Facebook? What's the history behind it?

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: Is D50/2 or D50/10 more typically used in graphic arts? I was given some LAB measurements of color samples. The LAB measurements came with a statement that the illuminant is D50, but no specification

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: Is there a standard for color wheels? I am aware of two common types of color wheels - RYB and RGB, but it seems that even two wheels of the same type can look different in different software.

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: Most discernible text colors on printed white paper For a paper I am writing, I need to annotate pieces of text with a color. Apart from black, I need four easily discernible colors of which

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: Are the primary colors (red, green, and blue) the most contrasting colors? According to the color theory, two complementary colors are the most distant ones on the color wheel and own a high

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: Background for bright orange button I am designing UI/UX for a mobile app. The brand identity is using this bright orange color so I made the button look like this: But I don't know which

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: Generating a series of colors between two colors Given a start color and an end color, is it possible to algorithmically generate a range of colors between them? For example, given the light

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: Books on color science I am not sure whether this is the right place to ask, but I'm currently working on an automatic color scheme creating tool and the only sources I have found on this

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: Given a white background, and black or grey text, is there a formula to find a link color with good contrast? The WCAG guidelines set the following requirements for text/link/background contrast:

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: How much each color plays in contributing in the determination of the overall brightness in hex notation What color does it has the most light component between #010101 or just #000001?? edit

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: How to create color scheme from two colors? Are there any tools for creating a color scheme based on two specific colors (or resources that explain the technique/intuition behind it), since the

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: Heuristics for generating website link color, based on a website theme's most prominent color? Let's say that you're designing a website's color scheme, and choose a particular color as the base

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: Mathematical approach to color schemes I am trying to implement a program that will classify the color scheme of the image based on the dominant colors. Example: I am using machine learning

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: Dominant color vs primary color vs prominent color of an image? What is the difference between the primary color of an image, dominant color of an image, and the most prominent color in an

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: Why is the W3C contrast score recommending hard-to-read text? Here are two buttons. When I measure them with the W3C contrast score, the black text has a much better score, meaning it should

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: Besides RGB, are there any other additive colour mixing models? Are there any additive colour mixing models that uses primary colours different than red, green, and blue?

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: Selecting the exact color I'm trying to be an expert for choosing colors and combining colors. So I found a tutorial making schools sets icons and for a start, I am making a pencil but I'm

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: Color scheme for three different goals I want to preface this by stating that I am in no way an expert in design or colors and their meanings. I am looking for three colors, each of which

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: How can we see the real "Near-Cyan" On my computer screen and your computer screen lies a "Near-Cyan" rectangle (100,250,255). Considering the number of hardware buttons on my computer and your

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: Colors for a diagram with unknown number of categories I have to draw a diagram for dynamic data. Each category should have a different color, but I don't know how many categories the diagram

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: Would combining light and dark overlay keep the image the same? If you have an image, and you added an overlay of a semi-transparent white, e.g. rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) in CSS, you get a

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: Color group for lavender I have to group the colors in as few groups as possible. For example, I would group gold and khaki under yellow. In which group should I put lavender? My color groups

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: Is it fair to use accent colors to borders in material design? I'm trying to create a widget styles in dashboard design.is it fair to use accent colors to borders instead of background color.when

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: How are color palettes used in Web Design? I am working on theme admin interface and introducing a color palette switcher. For starters admin has 5 colors in the palette. All color pickers

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: What are the pros and cons of using Lab color? I often see suggestions of converting an image to the Lab color model when editing images in, for example, Photoshop. What are the pros and

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: What makes a flat color: "flat"? What kind of calculations are there are behind 'flat' colors? Where I can start to choose them effectively? What are the properties? I found this article on

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: How can I increase the contrast in a color image converted to grayscale? The original image is: And the black white version becomes: As you can see, the cyan colored cells disappear in

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: Why do I see 3 different values for 75% white? Why do I see 3 values for 75% of white? Same for 50% and many other values. Yes there is a difference between each other, #C0C0C0 is (192,

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: What are the shades of green? I am working on a software project where I need to display only the shades of the primary colors. Using RGB, how would the shades of any color be defined? For

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: Transformation between the hue color wheel and Itten's color wheel Unfortunately, the hue color wheel does not correspond to human visual perception: Equal differences of the hue angle are perceived

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: Correction for color constancy? Many are familiar with this popular illusion where a single shade of color appears to be two different shades, depending on what color surrounds it The orange

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: Why color grade with limited green such as in Stranger Things? The phenomenal Netflix original Stranger Things does almost everything for a very specific reason. If you watch closely like I do

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: How to choose the right color shades/tints for branding? I’ve read a lot about color theoretical methods to pick a harmonic color palette (e.g. for branding), but I always wondered how to

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: How to predict new overlapping color in Adobe Illustrator? The following image has three circles of RGB Red, Blue and Green on a White Background. Each one has 50% opacity. The stacking order

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: What is the difference between 'Scale Tints' and 'Tints and Shades'? In Adobe Illustrator, in the 'Recolor Artwork' dialog box, what is the difference between 'Scale Tints' and 'Tints and Shades'?

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: Highlights and Shadows with Equal Weight I'm creating isometric buildings in Inkscape. Each building has a base color. To account for lighting, the top of each building has a highlight, the left

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: How to pick reverse/inverted colours for logo variations? It is typical in logo design that an inverted/reversed version of the logo is provided in order to cater for use on opposing (darker/lighter)

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: I have a bunch of colorants, what are the properties I need to know about them to predict the LAB values of the resultant mixture? Let's say I have a bunch of colorants/paints in liquid form

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: Who first discovered CMYK? It has been used for colour printing for many, many years, but who (and when) first discovered that a bright pink colour (magenta), a light blue (cyan), yellow and

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: Distinct palette for translucent markers over greyscale image? I'm trying to choose a discrete set of 10+ "cold" to "hot" colors to be used by translucent markers/icons displayed over a continuous

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: Why do dark shades of green and teal feel "muddy?" I'm trying to articulate why I prefer dark shades of blue in an interface over dark shades of teal, especially since the color is on a

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: Implying the ability to move a slider in my app's menu Firstly I don't think I'm asking this in the right place, but Graphic design is the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas

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: How to test if a specific color is harmonious within a new color pallete I'm trying to harmonize colors, I understand the basic theory, but when it comes to a complex palette, like for branding,

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: Selecting colors suitable for color, greyscale, and black/white printing I'm developing technical graphics for a printed/online scientific publication using Adobe Illustrator CS5. I am trying to select

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: What are common attributes to psychadelic designs? I am looking for color combinations and effects which give us the feeling of something "psychedelic." Sometimes there are the color combinations,

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: Should I pick fonts or colors first for my design? I always struggle to choose what to pick first, fonts or colors? This applies to website, brochures, pretty much anything that uses both.

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: Is there a clean way to use primary colors as a partial background in a book cover? A lot of UI guides advise against using primary colors as a background for text. I'm in the process of

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: Coloring 3 menu bars I'm trying to design my own website and i choosed content background color light grey an items white to focus attention but I'm having hard time to find best colors for

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: Highest contrast colour for annotation of greyscale image When making figures for research papers I often have to do line annotations on greyscale images, such as the example below: The problem,

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: Are there contrasting onion skin colors that you use? I'm working on an app and I have two images. One is the reference image and the other is the image produced in production (it's the layout

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: How to call a genre of art with perfectionistic figures? I really like a good combination of clear and harmonic colors and figures. For example, figures can be like in the pictures shown below:

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: Which is the best website to choose the best Background and Foreground colors? I am building a Flat color based website and am having trouble choosing the color scheme. I need a background

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: How to find four equally contrasting colours that are appealing to the eye? I have a plot for a scientific argument I'm trying to make. There are four colours that should be (roughly) equally

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: Companion colormap for text highlight color Edit: I am looking for resources (articles, books, posts) which study the choice of a single color to highlight text and a sequential color for two

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: How can I create a colour scheme based on two specific, adjacent(ish) colours? I'm helping a friend to produce his website. He's supplied his logo and a flyer that he's used, which use the

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: Material Design Colors fit I am trying to do applications in material design style but it is not always has best colour palette. I have this screen and this bottom buttons colour really bothers

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: How to pick and differentiate a flat color? When I am using Color Picker in Photoshop or Illustrator I am unable to get a Flat color. What are the things or basic points that I should keep

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: Why are white digital fonts composed of more colors than white? I know that colors are comprised of many other colors that can't be directly seen. But white? I thought white was just white.

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: Choosing colours for type in web design This is something that I've struggled with for a while now and I really want to correct it. Whenever I create a web design I use a colour pallete

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: Picking the right "white" to suit a theme When you take a photo of a white object, it's never actually #FFFFFF white. It will have a greenish tint if you take the photo outside, or orangeish

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: Representative color of Software Development What are the base colors for software development companies? I mean, when creating a website, a logo, flyers, etc... everything related to branding,

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: How to Match Skin Color Between Pictures Of The Same Person In GIMP I have two pictures of the same person. Pictures were taken at same place but slightly different light were used in each

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: Simulate Reading Mode on webpage Latest UPDATE : After days of searching without a single conclusive (not even close) option or study regarding the topic I decided to create my own survey to

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: Regular colors vs Muted colors What are muted colors? How do I create muted colours? How do I convert standard colors to muted colors? Why do muted colours look the way they do? Why are they

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: Is there an affordable alternative Uncoated CMYK guide to Pantone's colour formula books? Looking for a reliable CMYK uncoated colour guide book. Pantone is a little expensive (especially for design

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: Is my mobile UI too busy or just right? I recently finished touching up my UI for my app, I was curious to hear some professional opinions. Is it too busy? I need to display a few things

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: How to find a good background color for a 2-color logo I'm putting together a small flier for my company. I am adjusting a template that I purchased on the web to suit my needs. My logo

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: How to select colors for target audience based on age? Are colors and color combinations at all dictated by the age of your target demographic / audience? Since I think most would say yes

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