Colour coding
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- erkat0
Personally I've never been a huge fan of colour coding for the following reasons:
- Colour meanings are subjective and cultural.
- Very difficult to define a hierarchy in colour.
- Can lead to an incohesive visual language.Sometimes colour coding for different content sections can work better when combined with a descriptive icon for each section as well. Then there becomes a second level of association of the symbol and colour. Otherwise we're asking the audience to build a new association between a content type and colour which can mean asking them to override existing colour associations that they may have.
Another approach that could work could be to use a different pallette for each section rather than a single dominant colour. Then the interactions between those colours become the identity of the section and alos this can blur the preconceptions of subjective and cultural colour meanings for the audience because your giving them a combination of coulours as an identifier symbol.