Should all links on a website be the same color?

Make sure that all the links have the same color. This will create a consistent user experience and make it easy for users to know which links are active. If you are using a different color for hyperlinks, make sure that it is easy to see.

1. What color should links be on a website?
2. Do hyperlinks have to be blue?
3. Why are all links blue?
4. Why are some links blue and others not?

What color should links be on a website?

Shades of blue provide the strongest signal for links, but other colors work almost as well. As always, when using color to signal information, you should provide redundant cues for color-blind users. Making unvisited links brighter and more luminous than visited links will usually accomplish this goal.

Do hyperlinks have to be blue?

In truth, it doesn't matter what specific application or article inspired them. The decision to make hyperlinks blue in Mosaic, and the reason why we see it happening in Cello at the same time, is that by 1993, blue was becoming the industry standard for interaction for hypertext.

Why are all links blue?

Mosaic came out during an important time where support for color monitors was shifting; the standard was for hyperlinks to use black text with some sort of underline, hover state or border. Mosaic chose to use blue, and they chose to port their browser for multiple operating systems.

Why are some links blue and others not?

You've no doubt noticed by now that while some links are gold and/or bold, most links out there are blue, especially on web pages of yore. But why? the TL;DR answer is that the Mosaic browser, released in early 1993 used blue links, and since the browser was widely distributed, blue just became the norm.