Clashing colors demand attention, with rooms that include them often seen as bold and challenging. On the color wheel, colors that sit opposite each other are considered contrasting, and therefore, in ...

Q: My husband and I both like the color gray, so I was glad to see a number of the designers in a show house used gray on the walls. But they also used beige furniture and a beige-and-gray plaid rug.

Because color is incredibly subjective, personal and situational, it is difficult to study scientifically. There is no conclusive evidence to fully support one color’s beneficial effects on the human ...

(Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design, written and researched by Pegie Stark Adam, a Poynter affiliate in the Visual Journalism area, and designed and produced by Anne Conneen, design editor at ...