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Any best practices with feedback colours?

I have a few that I think are correct. These are background colours for messages.

  • ERROR: red;
  • INFO: blue;
  • SUCCESS: green;
  • NOT IMPORTANT INFO: yellow

Have I got the blue and yellow around the wrong way? Any hex values that are a de facto standard for these?

I am curious considering web development, but I think the answers will be agnostic.

Here is an interesting thought (I'm sure I've read about it in an article). What colours would the errors be on Target's website, considering all their branding is red?

Solution

  • These are pretty much straightforward. For non-important info, I don't if a yellow would be good since it's usually interpreted as "warning" or "look-here!".

    I would be inclined to go for a gray or maybe a tan colour (like Windows default tan colour). A non-alertful colour.