Why is Facebook so Blue in Color?
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The original design of Facebook, when it was called thefacebook.com and
you were required to have an .edu email address to even open an account
on Facebook, was blue in color. The new Facebook which has close to a
billion members is also mostly blue.
Facebook has gone through some
major redesigns in the past few years but one part that has more or less
stayed the same in all those years is the site’s blue color.
Everything is so blue about Facebook right from the sign-up page to the logo, their mobile app and even the site pop-ups that have shades of blue. Why?
A New Yorker story on Mark Zuckerberg explains why Facebook is all blue in color. It says the young Facebook founder is color blind but can see blue:
Why is Facebook Blue in Color
Everything is so blue about Facebook right from the sign-up page to the logo, their mobile app and even the site pop-ups that have shades of blue. Why?
A New Yorker story on Mark Zuckerberg explains why Facebook is all blue in color. It says the young Facebook founder is color blind but can see blue:
Colors don’t matter much to Zuckerberg; a few years ago, he took an online test and realized that he was red-green color-blind. Blue is Facebook’s dominant color, because, as he said, “blue is the richest color for me – I can see all of blue.”
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