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Ultimate Guide to Color in UX/UI Design

Tips, theory & best practices from beginner to advanced by moonlearning.io

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11 min readJun 20, 2021

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This article is an excerpt from my full course about UX/UI Basics on moonlearning.io You can find a preview video here.

Color is one of the main elements in your UI Design. It can shift the first impression of your product from sophisticated and cool to crazy and wild. It is not about mixing pretty colors; it’s about creating a system. But let’s start at the very base and work our way up to pro-level:

Color Values. What to use when.

Colors can be noted down in different ways, and the most common ones you will probably come across are Pantone, CMYK, HEX, and RGB. We only use HEX and RBG in screen design, but it is still essential to understand the difference as you will most likely be dealing with a brand on- and offline.

Pantone → Use for PRINT

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Written by Christine Vallaure

Founder of moonlearning.io | Speaker | Author of thesolo.io, a guide to Solopreneurship (coming soon). LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinevallaure

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