Colour has strong effects and impressions for almost everything. When you come into someone’s house, the first thing you would notice is the colour of their house and how it gives you different kinds of vibes depending on what combination of colours it has. That’s why; colour has the most powerful influence for all designs. Not only can it trigger different kinds of reactions, emotions, or moods, it can also boost the audience’s impressions upon seeing it.
The same thing applies to UI design too. For a web designer, colour in UI design is very important because it can draw attention and influence the reaction of the people who see it. Nowadays, designers use vibrant colours for their design. Vibrant is generally used to describe bright and intense colour, although vibrant isn’t a precise colour term, since people will use it differently. Bright colours with cartoonish designs are usually good for entertainment designs and elegantly minimalist colour and styles are well-suited for business designs. Therefore, vibrant colour is one of the biggest UI design trends of 2017.
What makes it unique is that vibrant colour can be applied in different ways and styles to design. In this article, we are going to explore the ways of boosting UI design using vibrant colours!
1. Monotone
Monotone is one of the most popular ways to use vibrant colours for a design. It is easy to create and makes text very readable. Monotone palettes come with a single colour with a mixture of shades and tints. Choose the colour that matches with your message. If paired with perfect typography, monotone colour schemes will create a really amazing look,.
2. Duotone
Duotone is an image created from two colours. It can be either two shades of the same colour, or two different colours. Duotone enables you to express an image with the emotional elements from the combination of any colour. Different colours can stir different kinds of emotions, depending of which colours and its combination you use. For example, the combination of soft and simple colour can represent business-like atmosphere, while the combination of bright colours can express happiness with a positive mood. It also adjusts the colour variations in an image. That way, the text can be placed anywhere on the image and is still perfectly readable.
3. Gradients
Gradients in the combination of the same colour that illuminates from light to dark can give the impression of modernism. It can also improve visual communication, whether it is a full gradient background or smaller places for the gradients. What makes smaller areas of gradient easier and more interesting is that you have more options to be creative with this technique, and when applied in smaller spaces, it can be visually attractive to play with multiple colour pairs.
4. Overlays
Overlaying is the application of semi-transparent coloured box covering an image or a video. It has been a popular design choice for a long time because it is easy to create. However, you have to be careful in setting the degree of saturation and transparency of the colour, because you have to make sure whether the text is still easily readable or not.
Now you know the ways of boosting your UI design using vibrant colours! Whatever you choose between these 4 types, make sure you put the text with the right colour combination so that the text is easy to read and the design is interesting to look at.