We started week 4 by understanding the feeling colours are related to, like red for danger or stop and green for eco-friendly and safe. This helps us as designers as we can connect the colours to the aim of the design.

We looked at the colour wheel and the relationships between them can create very different outcomes, there are Analogous colours that are beside each other on the wheel, Monochromatic colours that are a range of one colour in different tones, and Complementary colours that are opposites on the wheel, we moved on to Figma to display the relationships.

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There are lots of different conditions that can affect how people view colours, like Deuteranopia (red/green blindness), Protanopia (red/green blindness), Tritanopia (blue/yellow blindness), and Achromatopsia (all colour blindness).

‘There is general agreement that 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women are colorblind’ Here is a table that has the percentages of colour blindness.

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This is a great website to help us as designers understand and check for accessibility.

Colorblind Web Page Filter Testing Tool & Simulator | Toptal®

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These two links can also be used to check the standard of accessibility.

WebAIM: Contrast Checker

Colour Contrast Checker

We then took a music artist who we liked information to display different colour schemes using this Website that used colours found in the artist’s cover image to create the colour scheme.

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