Complementary Colors

Radoslava Seferinova — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:40:15 +0000

In web design, it is important to know how to use colors to create the necessary color combinations that are needed for your work. Their mixing and combining or the so-called color theory.

In order to create these color combinations first you need to understand what color wheel is and how to use complementary colors.

What are complementary colors?

Complementary colors represent two colors on the color wheel, that are opposite to one another. For example, a complementary color to red is green, or the color blue is yellow. The complementary colors consist of a single primary color and one secondary color. But before we get into the definition of the primary color and how to create a secondary color. First, we need to explain what is a color wheel.

What is the color wheel?

The color wheel is a visual representation of colors with their hues around a circle. Color wheels show the relationship between the primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors.

For example, primary colors are blue, red, and yellow on the RYB color wheel. By mixing equal parts of two primary colors, you can create a secondary color. In this case, when we combine red and yellow we get a secondary color which is orange. Yellow and blue create green. And the mix of red and blue is purple. Then tertiary colors are created by mixing together one secondary color and one primary color.

How to use complementary colors?

One thing that makes an impression is that every set of complementary colors contains one warm color and one cool color. For example, cool colors are blue, green, and purple, and warm colors include red, orange, and yellow.

In order to attract the user’s eye more easily, you can use simultaneous contrast. This contrast includes a warm color to complement a cool color and is the highest contrast found on a color wheel. For example, artists use complementary colors next to each other when painting a vivid sunset. Or on holidays such as Christmas people use to decorate with colors red and green.

In certain situations, the complementary colors with similar strengths are competing with one another. And this may actually cause the two colors to appear more harsh. The result can seem quite garish.

To avoid this use one of them as the dominant color. Then the second complementary color will become an accent color to the first one. Use the dominant color in larger areas and the accent color in smaller doses. This creates a balance in strength, allowing the eye to take it all in without feeling overwhelmed.

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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Radoslava Seferinova — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:31:28 +0000

World Wide Web is a subgroup of the Internet that involves websites and webpages that users can access via a web browser. Since all sites and pages are text documents, they need to be written in descriptive language that specifies the page structure. This language is called HTML (hypertext markup language).

HTML makes the page only readable without explicit styling. To control exactly how HTML elements look in the browser using whatever design you want. This is where CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) comes in.

What is CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)?

CSS is a style sheet language used for formatting content in HTML web pages. So it’s important to remember that CSS is not a programming language. Cascading style sheet is a design language that makes a website look more appealing than just pieces of text.

This is a design tool that often is combined with HTML or XHTML markup languages and requires creativity.

Where can we use CSS?

With CSS you can change the appearance and formatting of text, tables, and other elements separately from the content itself.

Cascading Style Sheet can be used to change the color and size of headings and links and even to create effects such as animation.

Based on where the CSS is added in the HTML document there are three types: Internal, External, and Inline. So in order to know which one is best to style our web pages with, we need to tell them apart.

What are the types of CSS?

Internal CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

Internal CSS is also called embedded CSS. This type of cascading sheet is when the CSS code is inserted in the section of the HTML document. This defines the style for a single page. This CSS style will be reloaded every time the website is refreshed. For example, you can use an internal style to assign colors to paragraphs on your page.

External CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

With this type, everything is done externally on a .css file. This means you can do all the styling on a separate file, called a stylesheet. Then you have to create a link to this CSS stylesheet and put it in the section of your document. You can apply the CSS to any page that you want. This helps you define the style for many HTML pages. As a result, by manipulating only one file you can change the whole look of the website.

Inline style (Cascading Style Sheet)

This style works with specific elements that have the

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