07-16-2010, 06:52 PM
Blue was the default link color way back in the beginning of Netscape, etc.
Green is very high contrast.
Black is ... black (I want my baby back).
You need to remember that in the Internet's infancy, many monitors could only display 256 colors.
Some UI experts probably determined that those three colors work best in that context, and the pattern stuck as a convention to this day.
Also, they all copy from each other.
I don't think Google was the first to do it that way.
Inktomi, altavista, HotWired or any other number of sites before them might have done it.
Green is very high contrast.
Black is ... black (I want my baby back).
You need to remember that in the Internet's infancy, many monitors could only display 256 colors.
Some UI experts probably determined that those three colors work best in that context, and the pattern stuck as a convention to this day.
Also, they all copy from each other.
I don't think Google was the first to do it that way.
Inktomi, altavista, HotWired or any other number of sites before them might have done it.