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Color selection is important as color could adversely affect the entire design if not appropriately applied in icon design. Color is also visually important to make a design more attractive, legible and viewer-friendly. The function of icons in computer display is for direction and navigation. Color and icon are both of equal importance in Graphical User Interface environments. The combination of color and icon makes for a powerful tool that allows information to be pleasantly presented on screen in a manner that is both clear and easy to comprehend. This study divided into Part 1, 2 and 3 comprises three research questions.The objective of this study is to encourage the 73 participants to explore the RGB color model by applying the color for a pair of previous and next icons. The findings from this study show that students still need to be given a systematic list of color combinations for foreground and background color choices.
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Lim, YP., Woods, P.C. (2009). Experimental Color in Computer Icons. In: Huang, M., Nguyen, Q., Zhang, K. (eds) Visual Information Communication. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0312-9_9
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