Color 

 

1. Human vision The linked PDF file shows the human visual field which comprisis about 100 degrees of arc for each eye. The area of overlap comprises about 60 degrees.

2. Color perception depends on visual context The linked PDF file shows a square in two different color environments. The squares seem to have slightly different colors. The linked PDF file shows a square in two different color environments. The squares seem to have slightly different colors. To prove that this is not the case, the right-side square was copied into the left-side background.
    (since vision is optimized for edge contrast)

3. Colors have different cultural associations The linked PDF file shows a square in two different color environments. The squares seem to have slightly different colors.

4. Guidelines based on physiology The linked PDF file shows a square in two different color environments. The squares seem to have slightly different colors.

5. Guidelines based on user satisfaction
    and designers' experience The linked image shows good and bad foreground color choices for given background color choices The linked image discusses the possible usage of several colors The linked image shows the results of user satisfaction studies with color choices for thin lines and text, and thick lines and panels, given certain background colors The linked image shows guidelines for color usage in different application types.

6. More guidelines... The linked image shows guidelines for color usage in different application types.

7. Recommended usages for color The linked image shows guidelines for color usage in different application types.