My name is Stefan Isarie and I am professional client side developer living in Iasi, Romania.Orange is dead. Long live green!
Saturday, October 29, 2005
The colors found in a web site are the salt’n'pepper of each web designer who’s drawing layouts and web interfaces. Bad colors means poorly designed pages. Not pleasant. Borring. Gives unconfortable experience to the visitor.
From time to time, not in a regular way, the predominant colors that web designers preffer to use in their web layouts, are changing. I’m sure that many of you remarked that the orange was quite present in many websites you have visited during the latest 12 months or more.
Having a look on some websites during this week I realized that the today designers are no longer fans of orange but of shades of green and gray. These are the predominant colors that gives the salt’n'pepper for some of the well known web sites out there, some of them being designed by the most important designers in the industry today.
I have compiled some web sites which are using green and gray as their main colors for accomplish very stylish web site designs. This is a source of inspiration and a source of learning how to combine colors to give your website a pleasant look.
December 6th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
I hate to disagree with you but it’s not entirely true !…it depends on a lot of things…like project subject, clients preferences and even the layout of the site that is designed…and i dont think that one or two colors can put some kind of monopol on the rest of colors….
but hey …it’s just my opinion
December 8th, 2005 at 10:15 am
Well, I did not say that this color scheme [ shades of gray mixed with shades of green ] is general valid for any kind of website. What I meant to say is that this is a stream I have observed in the last couple of months… Almost all the mentioned websites above are personal website which represents color scheme preferences of some designers.
I am sorry that I did not make this point clear.
December 10th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
Yes, its true! I love green websites, its very difficult to make a site with it look ‘nice’ though
http://www.swoo.co.uk http://www.elementik.net/prelaunch_/ (this is an old site - I’m so cool I did it LAST year :P)
hehe
December 12th, 2005 at 8:38 am
Wow! This was my reaction when visiting swoo.co.uk! Excellent design! I really, really, love it!
December 13th, 2005 at 8:51 pm
Been green since ‘04, baby!
Mojito ~ Den Gröna
(In English: Mojito ~ The Green One)
December 15th, 2005 at 12:24 pm
Interestingly, green and gray were the colors of all the clothes in the boutiques here in Rome. I didn’t like it on fabric but I do like it on the web. This winter it seems like the more last-year web colors of dark blue and orange are in the boutiques.
Some sort of switchover effect?
December 28th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
I have nothing against green, gray, orange or any other color, but I think we have to remember that color is a tool, and as such, ought to be used to communicate the client’s identity and tastes, not the designer’s. Color “trends” should not take precedence over what is best for the client. Colors carry significant cognitive meaning, elicit mood and emotion, and have underestimated power to attract and influence audiences. A thorough study of communicating with color should be done by designers of both print and Web. An excellent book which I highly recommend: Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color by Leatrice Eiseman. It will change the way you think about color, as well as the way you design for your clients and their audiences.
January 11th, 2006 at 3:59 am
I ha d alook through the gathering you summoned and I feel too the green “fever”. But in the end it’s still the client that says that red is a main.
Yey, green is known as a morea appealing colour to the human eye and brain and is a symbol for life, freshness and, in can become, in the right combination, quality
June 7th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Look at my “green” website !