Poker sites usually use green a lot – card table color.
Vibrant colors have energy – whereas pastels are laid back. It’s the energy you want – creates enthusiasm. I always try to use bright colors on my sites.
Play with it – maybe a bright, happy green and white with black here and there. Just because it’s been done doesn’t mean that it won’t work – fortunes have been made doing the same thing as someone successful. It never pays to be a pioneer…
Lots of white space is good – restful on the eyes – so maybe I should have said white with green instead of the other way around.
A suggestion that maybe you should go to as many poker sites as you can and see what they do with color. I’m betting that most of them use green.
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