9 Interesting Infographics About Color Color, one of the most overlooked and yet important elements to our every day lives. Because of the makeup of our brains, and the correlations between sight and perception, we are affected on a very deep level by color. Perhaps even more than we are affected by shape, or any other sense in the mind and body. But color can relate to a great many things, even changing the way we think and feel. Check out these fantastic infographics about color and the way it is set in our world. 1. Many designers focus heavily on color schemes when they are working on logos, graphics or layouts. 2. Going a little bit deeper, this site is also made to show you how certain colors create certain feelings in the viewer. 3. Color affects more than mood, it also changes our buying habits. 4. A great, printable reference sheet that shows how colors can be used more effectively in marketing. 5. Ever wonder what the best colors on the web are? 6. 7. 8.
Twitter Best Practices - The Free Beginner's Guide from Moz Utilize tracking and variables in all of your shared links. This will help you to better evaluate the success that individual content pieces have. Look at the day and time your audience is most active, the types of content they engage with most frequently, and the style and tone of your language. From there you can better understand how to share and engage with your community. Be interesting: There's nothing worse than boring tweets. Add value: It's important to be consistently present, but not so loquacious that you tweet simply to hear yourself speak. Color Design Principle: Chromostereopsis (Or Why Blue on Red Doesn’t Work) Don’t ever design blue text on a red background. Ever. And don’t put green on red, either. If the image below doesn’t give you reason enough not to, I don’t know what will. A visual phenomenon, called chromostereopsis, makes our eyes want to turn a 2D image into something 3D. Want to Look Powerful or Sexy? What color is your “power tie”? How to Check Your Designs for Color Blindness For anybody interested in design, whether as a hobby or as a career, it is worth knowing that nearly between 5% and 8% pall men (and about 0.5% of women) have some form of color blindness. When to Use Saturated Colors Maybe it goes without saying, but every color has a place and purpose. The Difference between CMYK and RGB Color If you are designing anything in color, you should be familiar with the two most common color models: RGB and CMYK. What is CMYK Color?
Brain Games & Brain Training - Lumosity Artist Wants To Map Every Single Human Skin Tone On Earth Perhaps, in the near future, besides wearing mobile devices on our faces and sporting unisex high-waisted pants, we’ll cease to refer to people as black or white, or some variant in between. Instead, we’ll use their corresponding Pantone color to describe the tone of their skin. If this happens, we’ll have to thank artist Angelica Dass for building the first database of skin hues. Dass started her project, Humanae, in April 2012, by photographing some of her Brazilian family members. “Humanae is a pursuit for highlighting our true color, rather than the untrue red, yellow, black, and white,” says Dass, who is the “granddaughter of a ‘black’ and ‘native’ Brazilian and the daughter of a ‘black’ father adopted by a ‘white’ family.” Each individual portrait is pretty monochromatic. Diversity is important to Bass, and not just for skin tone. See more here.
Dota 2 Psychology of Color [Infographic] | WebpageFX Blog Perhaps no choice is as vital to marketing as color. Whether you are selecting the color for a product or for your email marketing campaign, color has tremendous impact on all of us. Subconsciously, we associate different colors with different things. This infographic examines the psychology of color and looks at some common associations of different colors. While color can be appealing to us visually, a lot more is going on behind the scenes than just an aesthetic. Embed This Graphic On Your Site <img src=” alt=”Psychology of Color Infographic” />Infographic by <a title=”WebpageFX” href=” Embed the Psychology of Color Infographic The psychology of color directly plays into consumer behavior. When you are looking at the best visual choice for your next project, this color infographic should be a handy guide. Marketing with Color Psychology
Impossibly cute baby has had enough of her dad chasing her every time she enters a room I think I just destroyed the replay button watching this adorable video. In Seoul, South Korea, software engineer Kwanyoung Park documents the everyday life of his two daughters, Yerin and Yeseo, on his YouTube channel, ‘Bobaepapa’. In one video compilation he made back in April 2013, it features his then-14-month-old Yerin playing their favorite game of chase. The clips always start out with Yerin entering her parents’ bedroom, only to be surprised and eventually chased by her dad. Cuteness overload ensues every time as Yerin runs – and giggles – for her life. In the final clip, however, Yerin appears to have had enough, surprising her dad with a short speech (if you can call it that). Watch the video below to see how it all plays out. Via LifeBuzz
Colors of the Social World (Wide Web) [Infographic + Video] by COLOURlovers When a social network like Twitter allows a user to select a theme to represent themselves in the digital world, that user is choosing to identify their digital persona with colors... And we wanted to look at who chooses what colors... If the world is made up of people and those people have a color preference... what then is the color of Texas? What color are mothers? What color are we? By looking at the more than 1 Million people who have used our Themeleon tool to design their Twitter Profile in the past 3 months, we were able to paint a picture of the world connecting colors to locations and profile data. *A little note regarding the "World vs. Click The Image Below for the High Res Version A Colorful Tour of the Themeleon World We took the colors from 100,000 profiles designed with Themeleon and geolocated them to the designers location. Colors of the Social Web from CHROMAom on Vimeo. Team Written by COLOURlover
THEREMIN - A Touch Friendly Synthesizer ✖Update: 7 February 2014 Thanks to everyone for sharing! Over 100,000 people have played on the theremin in the last 3 days which is absolutely amazing. Due to a large number of requests, we've began working on a record function as well as an offline version of the app which will be available soon. Feel free to either subscribe at the bottom of the page or follow us on Facebook & Twitter for updates and future toys. More info The web audio theremin is a touch friendly & responsive audio synthesizer built in javascript using the Web Audio API with HTML5 canvas. Feel free to get in contact with me here: luke@femurdesign.com If you are using Safari or Chrome, please update your browser to the latest version. This synthesizer uses latest Web Audio API technology which is currently supported in Chrome, Safari, Opera and iOS Safari 6+.