A Study on Colour Combination Guidelines for Text and Background in Web Legibility Perspective

Nowadays, webpages are widely used to disseminate information or as an online application to replace the old paper based form. Since webpages are flexible and simple for the web developer to design and use a variety of colour combinations, font types and font sizes, guidelines seem very important in...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Affendi, Hashim, Mazlina, Abdul Majid
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Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling my.ump.umpir.50242018-04-25T08:46:46Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5024/ A Study on Colour Combination Guidelines for Text and Background in Web Legibility Perspective Ahmad Affendi, Hashim Mazlina, Abdul Majid QA76 Computer software Nowadays, webpages are widely used to disseminate information or as an online application to replace the old paper based form. Since webpages are flexible and simple for the web developer to design and use a variety of colour combinations, font types and font sizes, guidelines seem very important in helping a web designer to design an aesthetically appealing and legible webpage. However, the guidelines developed are based on earlier research that was mostly done using old Video Display Technologies (VDT). The latest generation of VDT is capable of displaying sharper images with its high-resolution technologies. The differences in the display technologies have made this area of research very important for a restudy. This paper will explore the current guidelines and determine what is necessary to ensure web text legibility through choosing the right colour combinations to be used as well as fonts and background colour. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5024/1/30-UMP.pdf Ahmad Affendi, Hashim and Mazlina, Abdul Majid (2013) A Study on Colour Combination Guidelines for Text and Background in Web Legibility Perspective. In: 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems (ICSECS 2013) , 20-22 August 2013 , Kuantan, Pahang. pp. 1-10.. (Unpublished)
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Ahmad Affendi, Hashim
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A Study on Colour Combination Guidelines for Text and Background in Web Legibility Perspective
description Nowadays, webpages are widely used to disseminate information or as an online application to replace the old paper based form. Since webpages are flexible and simple for the web developer to design and use a variety of colour combinations, font types and font sizes, guidelines seem very important in helping a web designer to design an aesthetically appealing and legible webpage. However, the guidelines developed are based on earlier research that was mostly done using old Video Display Technologies (VDT). The latest generation of VDT is capable of displaying sharper images with its high-resolution technologies. The differences in the display technologies have made this area of research very important for a restudy. This paper will explore the current guidelines and determine what is necessary to ensure web text legibility through choosing the right colour combinations to be used as well as fonts and background colour.
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author Ahmad Affendi, Hashim
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title A Study on Colour Combination Guidelines for Text and Background in Web Legibility Perspective
title_short A Study on Colour Combination Guidelines for Text and Background in Web Legibility Perspective
title_full A Study on Colour Combination Guidelines for Text and Background in Web Legibility Perspective
title_fullStr A Study on Colour Combination Guidelines for Text and Background in Web Legibility Perspective
title_full_unstemmed A Study on Colour Combination Guidelines for Text and Background in Web Legibility Perspective
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