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Compliance professionals can utilize color as a quick way to guide readers toward important topics, to separate topics, and to highlight practical points that readers need to know to do well at their job. Improving the ease of use removes frustration and friction and can create a better work environment and relationship to compliance.

Improving organization through color can also help make both internal and external audits more readable. It is important to make the materials as easy to use as possible for external auditors so that they find the information they need quickly.

Audience

Different colors can be used on a consistent basis to signal information for different job functions, making finding compliance information easier for the target audience. For example, different colors and color palettes could be used to quickly identify compliance information for scientists, administrative staff, and community members.

Selecting Colors

Design-Seeds offers color palette inspiration. Colors specific to an organization, university, or college can also be used. Marketing can be contacted or a brand book consulted to find the exact color codes to replicate. The Hex code is one way that colors are categorized, with each assigned a numerical code so that it may be reproduced consistently throughout all mediums. The Hex code of a color can be looked up utilizing this site, which also converts the Hex code to other color coding systems, including RGB and CMYK. 

Highlight Risk Factors

Color can be utilized to highlight key compliance risk factors that need education and attention within educational forms, newsletters, print materials, and online electronic libraries.