Batman's color scheme ranges from black to dark blue for the majority of his costume. There is also a bit of grey included in his palette, but the main focus is on the two aforementioned hues. These colors come in handy for Batman because he primarily does his superhero work during the night time, which works to his benefit because he is able to blend in with the darkness or at least go unseen for a large amount of time. Also, he chooses the color black because of its obvious relation to bats, on which he bases his uniform and persona.
Batman is at all times masked in shadows. This mostly has to do with his choice of only appearing during nightfall. That way, by lurking in the darkness, his visibility is concealed due to the combination of the light fixtures of his surroundings and his costume's array of colors. Another reason that Batman keeps in the dark is because in reality, he is a human being named Bruce Wayne, and has a job as the president of Wayne Enterprises. He only has time to fight crime and evil as the "caped crusader" when he can escape the public eye, after the sun goes down.
Every time that Bruce Wayne dons the cape and mask to become his alter ego Batman, he resembles an average forest bat. The reason for this is because as a child, Mr. Wayne had a traumatic phobia of those animals. However, through the death of his parents, he grew to overcome his fear. Now, he serves justice vicariously through bats. For instance, he has taken the symbol of what once had haunted him constantly, and now uses it as a symbol to strike the very same fear into the hearts of every villain that inhabits Wayne's hometown of Gotham City.
Antagonist: The Joker
Batman's ultimately well-known villain to most comic book readers and moviegoers alike is The Joker. His color scheme relies heavily on the use of the hues of purple and green. These two colors are derived most likely from the generally festive nature associated with the atypical clown and joker manifestation. This nature generally includes bright and flashy colors, such as the purple and green in question. The Joker's presentation of these colors is also an effort to give the impression of "popping out" at you when they are seen. After all, this is partly his goal; to appear surprising and frightening.
The Joker's lighting is the very same as Batman's lighting. Both of them surround themselves in darkness. However, The Joker does this for a completely different reason. Whereas Batman chooses dark settings to perform in because it shrouds him from enemies and therefore allows him to seemingly come out of thin air, his antagonist acts in the same lighting simply because his character is an evil villain, and is thusly associated with darkness as all villains usually tend to be. In the same way that good values are held in high regard and possess a "light" quality, The Joker's villainy is held in the opposite regard, meaning that he is consumed by the "dark" side of things.
The character of The Joker has always been a convicted and apparent psychopath. Because of this, he takes the shape of some composition of a court jester, a clown, and the "joker" depicted on cards in a regular deck of fifty-two. His reason for doing so stems from his insanity. He is in a very poor state of mentality, and therefore laughs at everything at all times, and considers everything to be some sort of a joke. Taking influence from his prankster-like and inappropriate personality, he always bears the resemblance of a jester-type being, because jesters are always pertinent to jokes and entertainment.
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