My design shall hopefully motivate the student and make them feel better about their day (especially if they're stuck on revising) so I would like to use colours associated with happiness as well as that hint of relaxation. I went onto Google to have a look at some websites and found one (http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours) that had a whole list of the "main" colours and the positive and negative sides to them. Here's what I've copied and pasted from that site:
"RED. Physical
Positive: Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic survival, 'fight or flight', stimulation, masculinity, excitement. Negative: Defiance, aggression, visual impact, strain.
BLUE. Intellectual.
Positive: Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency, serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection, calm. Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness.
YELLOW. Emotional
Positive: Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, creativity. Negative: Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility, depression, anxiety, suicide.
GREEN. Balance
Positive: Harmony, balance, refreshment, universal love, rest, restoration, reassurance, environmental awareness, equilibrium, peace. Negative: Boredom, stagnation, blandness, enervation.
VIOLET. Spiritual
Positive: Spiritual awareness, containment, vision, luxury, authenticity, truth, quality. Negative: Introversion, decadence, suppression, inferiority.
ORANGE.
Positive: Physical comfort, food, warmth, security, sensuality, passion, abundance, fun. Negative: Deprivation, frustration, frivolity, immaturity.
PINK.
Positive: Physical tranquillity, nurture, warmth, femininity, love, sexuality, survival of the species. Negative: Inhibition, emotional claustrophobia, emasculation, physical weakness.
GREY.
Positive: Psychological neutrality. Negative: Lack of confidence, dampness, depression, hibernation, lack of energy.
BLACK.
Positive: Sophistication, glamour, security, emotional safety, efficiency, substance. Negative: Oppression, coldness, menace, heaviness."
The best choices out of these colours - if I did want to go with the happy-but-relaxing idea - would be green, red, blue, yellow and orange. I would choose pink as well but that is stereotypically associated with feminine aspects and I want to produce a unisex design.
To help me out a little bit more I went onto the Pinterest board "Typography" and have selected a few inspirational pieces.
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| http://stevesimpson.com/ |
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| http://stevesimpson.com/ |
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| http://stevesimpson.com/ |
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| http://www.linziehunter.co.uk/ |
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| http://www.linziehunter.co.uk/ |
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| http://chriswharton.com/ |
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| http://joncontino.com/ |
After taking a look at all of these I realised that I have been leaning on the blue x orange x cream combination, but I'll still try out different ones to give me more options in future.
With this in mind, here are some of the colour combinations I found on https://kuler.adobe.com/
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| Firenze |
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| Honey Pot |
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| Aspirin C |
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| Phaedra |
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| Friends and Foes |
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| Salmon on Ice |
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| Flat UI |
Conclusion:
It was pretty handy having a look at colours and the emotions associated with them as it made it easier for me to choose a handful of colour palettes. I shall be trying out all of the colour combinations I have listed above on my design, but first I think I shall try and draw up all of the other sections first so that this will be one of the last things I do.
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