Why Facebook is Blue in Color?

If you enter the facebook website, the first thing you will notice is the blue color of the site. Have you ever thought of the reason why the site prefer blue color ever since their inception till date and did not even bother to change it?

Ever since the inception of facebook till date, despite the fact that the site name changed from ‘thefacebook’ to ‘facebook’, yet their color did not change from blue color. Even though the main changes have been done in the facebook theme but the only thing that never change about facebook is their blue color.

The most interesting fact about facebook is that in its early days, thefacebook website needed you to have an .edu mail address identity before you could join ‘thefacebook’. Almost everywhere starting from the login page to the facebook groups, you will always find blue.

The major reason for the blue color of facebook is not farfetched. The young founder of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is red-green color blind and the richest color of Mark is blue. He confirmed this in one of his online interview with Leo Laporte.

Another reason for the use of blue color as facebook theme is that most colors used to distract the viewers but blue color acts as a transparent background to the major content and it is visible to the human brain due in which most of the popular websites prefer to use blue color. This implies that it can

be easily called a webmaster’s favorite color. The blue color is usually referred to as Nirvana for the brain. All these contribute to the prominent color of the facebook blue background.

Even though, Zuckerberg confirmed that in one of his interview that “Blue is facebook’s dominant color, because blue is the richest color for me – I can see all of blue.”