Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Design plays an important part in content marketing. An interesting looking site is more likely to retain the attention of visitors than something boring or simply average.

In turn, sites that rely on content marketing tactics like blogging need to use images to help break up the text and give their readers’ eyes a break. But there is another way to utilize images to make your content strategy even more effective, through the psychology of colors. If you are looking to boost your conversions, here some tactics for using images to do so....

“Color: what a deep and mysterious language!”

[1] Specific hues can provoke different emotions, associations, and responses that affect how your brand is perceived. Put simply, color choices can make or break a design. In fact, research has shown that color can increase brand recognition (by up to 80%), memory, engagement with a design piece, text comprehension, among many others.

Fortunately, we are far from the times when our color choices were limited to a small batch of natural pigments. Our options are no longer whatever colors minerals, animals, and plants had to offer. Synthetic pigments and the screen have made our lives increasingly easier, while making deciding infinitely more complex.

With such an overwhelming amount of color options, selecting a palette for a design project has become excruciating, to say the least. The Colourlovers community has indexed nearly 8 million user-named colors, while there are over 16 million possible hexadecimal color combinations.

Overwhelmed yet? No need to worry. We asked top designers from the Creative Market community to share their best tricks & advice for creating stunning color combinations. Take note of these 10 insider secrets and bring them into your next Canva project....