This website was inspired by a color poem. It features the complementary colors of tangy teal and juicy peach. It is intended as a space to enjoy, interact, and experience colors on screen. More importantly, it is also a place to inform on complementary colors and accessible design that considers color.

When starting this project, it was important to reflect back on the information I learned in some of the earlier art classes like color connections of complementary, analogous, monochromatic, split complementary, tetrad, square, and triadic. 

There is so much to consider when using color but accessibility was a new thing to think about when designing for Project 1. I did additional research to learn more about how color expresses emotion from just the hues. It is so interesting that we can see color and associate it with all of the other senses like taste, smell, sounds, touch, and even memories associated with it. In my research, these feelings came out when studying a warm color like juicy peach versus a cool color like tangy teal. 

We are surrounded by color 24/7 with clothing, food, nature, buildings and stores, objects, animals, and electronics. To most of us, it’s just a color that someone chose with no background or meaning. In most cases, that is the opposite. For me, knowing about color and the connection to emotion and memories, I decided to only include photos and videos that took me back to a memory or gave me a sense of peacefulness. 

Going into the design field, color is EVERYTHING. With design, when a hue or shade is off the whole message could change. This made me not only look at the color on the screen but feel the color when making color choices. Spending more time and research on color is something I want to incorporate in my work and not just rely on the look or aesthetic of it.