Color Schemes - Pick The Right Colors For Your Website
Let's start with the obvious. One of the best things you can do to make sure no one will ever visit your site again is to make sure that there is very little contrast between the background color and the font color. For example, if you have a black background, make sure you use a dark gray font. If you have a light colored background, use a white font. And, of course, make sure that your font and background colors are in the same area of the color wheel.Take this font, for example. It's a sort of medium yellow, on a bright yellow background.
Nice, isn't it?
Another way you can guarantee that no one will want to come back to your website is to intersperse different colors without rhyme or reason throughout your text. Attractive, isn't it?
Of course, some people will tell you that there are other ways to emphasize your text, like italics or bold or underline.
But really, who would want to do something so boring?
Then, of course, I've made this site especially annoying and painful by using very bright colors that will burn themselves into the retinas of your eyes. I call this particular color scheme my "ketchup and mustard" color scheme. Long after you leave this page you will still have a craving for a McDonald's cheeseburger.
Of course, if you don't want your website colors to impact the eye in a *ahem* "dramatic" way, you should stick to colors with either a low saturation or a high saturation. In other words, use colors that are quite dark, or very close to white. These colors, while they might not seem so interesting, aren't quite as painful on the eyes.