Good

  • Accessibility
    • Web standards were developed to ensure the web is largely accessible#
  • Colour paradigms can be used to associate colours with a brand
    • Makes the brand more memorable, i.e., red & yellow for McDonalds
  • Colour paradigms are predicable, making the web easier to use
  • Unicode supports a large set of characters

Bad

  • Accessibility
    • Sites may not follow the standards reducing accessibility
  • Colour paradigms may be used to exploit human behaviour
    • Colours can be used to cause an emotional response
  • ASCII/Extended ASCII fail to support a large set of characters and limit the reader to Latin-based languages