What Colors Symbolize in Website Design

          In the world of web sites, certain colors can trigger emotions or physical reactions. The color wheel (shown below) shows you the primary, tertiary, and the secondary colors. Each color has a complimentary color, that means a color that goes with it and looks good. The complimentary colors are across from each other, such as green and red, blue and orange,& yellow and purple. The prism! (where colors come from)>>>>>
Colors Chart
Color Name Color SampleHex Code
RED "ff0000"
GREEN "00ff00"
BLUE"0000ff"
ORANGE "ff9900"
YELLOW "ffff00"
PURPLE "9966ff"
BLACK "ffffff"
WHITE "000000"

Colors AND their Compliments
Red = = Green
Blue = = Orange
Yellow= = Purple
Black = = White

Red
      The color of red can mean many different things. It can change your emotions from seemingly conflicting to passionate, violence, love and warfare. The color red itself has been affiliated with the love of Valentines Day, to the macabre of satan and the red heat of the fiery afterlife. Love, energy, enthusiasm, action,passion, courage are all things that red can make you feel. The complimenting color for red is GREEN.
Green

     Green represents renewel, life, and nature, yet it can also show jealousy, envy and inexperience. Nature, youth, money, knowledge, growth and luck are all great things that the color green may bring to you. The complimenting color is RED.


Blue

     The color blue represents calm and cool. Blue can be strong and friendly all at the same time. The color blue is supposed to play upon your emotion of serenity and peace. The complimentary color for blue is ORANGE. From honesty, healing, forgiveness, to concentration and relaxation, the color blue usually makes everyone feel better.


Orange
      Orange is a vibrant color with the combination of red and yellow, orange shares the attributes that those denoted colors have. Orange symbolizes enery, warmth, and the sun. The intensity and aggression shows through at times in this extravagant color but not as much as the color red does, becuase it has the calmed cheerfulness that yellow brings.Orange provides you with warth, focused energy, unity of mind and body, strength and success. The complimentary color is BLUE.
Yellow
      Hope and happiness is the key with yellow. It represents sunshine and has the warm color that brightens your day, yet it can also bring cowardice and deceit. Like many other colors yellow is conflicting depending on your moods. Yellow can bring you happiness, hope, intellect, communication, clairvoyance, and make you more alert in your day. The complimentary color for yellow is PURPLE.
Purple
      This majestic color represents royalty and spirituality. Mixed from red and blue, purple is an intriguing color that is sure to bring you the grace in life that you are looking for. This color can also bring you dignity, psychism, authority, inspiration, wisdom and guidance. The complimenting color is YELLOW.
Black
      Black is the ultimate dark. This color is said to be conservative and goes well with almost anything you can think of. It can go from serious to mysterious and still remain conventional, and sophisticated. Black can bring you protection, resolve, knowledge, absorption, and the destruction of negative energy. Technically this dark color is not actually a color but a hue, what the colors can be mixed with to make those colors darker. The opposing hue to black is WHITE.
White
      White is purity, cleanliness and innocence all rolled into a tiny package. Like black, white goes well with any other color. Also like black, white is not a color at all but a hue. You can mix any color with this hue to brighten your shades. White can bring you unity, truth, protection, purity, purity of intentions, spiritual strength, and psychic energy. The complimenting hue for white is BLACK.
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