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In terms of color, I would say myspace created the association blue == social (eg. http://web.archive.org/web/20050104004746/http://myspace.com/ http://web.arch
by jcfrei 16y ago
In terms of color, I would say myspace created the association blue == social (eg. http://web.archive.org/web/20050104004746/http://myspace.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20050104004746/http://myspace.com... ).
Thus I would even argue that facebook wouldnt have become the stellar success it is today, if its main theme was, for example, green.
From a programmers perspective choosing the right colors for your product might seem like a mundane task. but I think it is a key factor when it comes to popularity - just because the human perception relies so much on colors. Just ask yourself; would you buy a red car? What would happen if facebook changed the “facebook blue” from #3B5998 to #3B59CC?
- dariusmonsef 16y agoFacebook is blue not so much because of emulating Myspace... but because Zuckerberg is Red/Green colorblind... so that was the obvious choice for him. And Blue has been a strong color online and in the business world for a long time... Think IMB "Big Blue." Again, there are social reasons that could affect this... but there is also the fact that tech has mostly been a male dominated space and a large number of males are red/green colorblind. And the best example of how funny the social connections are with color. Can you imagine driving a pink car? Wearing a pink suit? Sounds girly right? You'd never do that. But it wasn't that long ago that the gender association of those colors switched. It was an old advertisement for from the 30s or so, that showed that pink was the great new color for little girls. To that point pink was for boys and blue for girls. (Because Red is a strong aggressive color and blue is a soft mellow one... and pink is just a lighter version of red.)