Any best practices with feedback colours?

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Published on 2009-09-25T01:54:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 7:23 UTC
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I have a few that I think are correct. These are background colours for messages.

ERROR: red;
INFO: blue;
SUCCESS: green;
NOT IMPORTANT INFO: yellow

Have I got the blue and yellow around the wrong way? Any hex values that are a de facto standard for these?

I am curious considering web development, but I think the answers will be agnostic.

Here is an interesting thought (I'm sure I've read about it in an article). What colours would the errors be on Target's website, considering all their branding is red?

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