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NASA's Ames Research Center has a great site called "Using Color in Information Display Graphics": http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/ http://colorusage.arc.nasa.g
by andrewl 16y ago
NASA's Ames Research Center has a great site called "Using Color in Information Display Graphics":
http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/ http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/
It has articles, tools, a bibliography, even an entire section devoted to designing with blue:
http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/blue_2.php http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/blue_2.php
It's geared more for functionality than beauty, but that suits me fine. I mostly do web sites for other departments in my company, and clean, functional, and not actively unpleasant are all I need to deliver. They're also pretty much all I'm capable of delivering. Beauty is way beyond my abilities.
- kadavy 16y agoIt seems ironic that NASA would have something to say about information design, considering... http://www.asktog.com/books/challengerExerpt.html http://www.asktog.com/books/challengerExerpt.html But, maybe they've learned their lesson?
- andrewl 16y agoMaybe. Or maybe the group that did the above site was already around at the time of the Challenger disaster, but half of NASA had never heard of them. From what I've seen in large organizations, it's not unusual for there to be departments doing valuable work that could make the company millions, if only anybody knew they existed, or understood what they were talking about. I wouldn't be surprised if NASA's color site was originally an under-the-radar project done by three guys who just loved color and information design. I have reactions similar to yours when I think about Microsoft employing Simon Peyton Jones, or the fantastically advanced people working at IBM's Watson research center. They do not represent the Microsoft or IBM I've come to know.