What would be the world without colors? It would feel like an emotionless and lifeless space. Can you imagine the beauty of rainbow without its seven layers of colors? Sky will be no longer beautiful without the blue shade.
We are surrounded by color everyday from the natural colors of the world around us, to the colors we choose to incorporate in our home and personal style. We come across with hundreds and hundreds of color variations each day, but the colors we spend the most time around may be having a greater impact on our mood and inner feelings than we realize it.
Here are some interesting facts about color.
1. RED
Red is the most powerful color amongst all. It has a tendency to stimulate mind and attract attention.
🔴 Red is often described as anger, courage, danger, heat, passion, sexuality, and strength. Being the color of blood and fire,it is strongly connected with love and revolution.
🔴 Negative association of color red is, it is very aggressive,strongly associated with pain, violence and war.
🔴 Red is often used to grab attention, particularly in advertising and traffic signage.
Red is popular in food industry and it is used in logos of many famous foods and beverage brands, because red color make us feel craving to eat.
🔴 Red color can actually speed up the heart rate and raise the blood pressure
🔴 DID YOU KNOW? 🔴
➡ Men and women see red color differently
There's an actually a gene that allows people to see and interpret red and related colors. That gene is linked to the X-chromosome
Because women have two X-chromosomes by nature, they have a better ability to see the entire red spectrum, where as mens with single chromosome aren't necessarily equipped to notice much difference between red and related colors.
➡ Red color is the first color baby sees
Studies have shown that infant of two weeks age can already identify the color red. Probably because red has the longest wavelength among colors making it the easiest color to process by developing receptors and nerves in the baby's eyes.
➡ Red color can hurt your performance on exams
It is found that color red can harm the performance on achievement tasks,because it is associated with failure in achievement contexts and evokes avoidance motivation.
➡ Red causes people to react with greater speed and force, something that might prove yourself during athletic activities according to researchers.
2. BLUE
Blue is the king of all colors as it is the most visible amongst them. It transfer reliability and a sense of dependency to the people.
🔵 Color blue is closely related with confidence, harmony, loyalty, patience, relaxation, peace and truth.
🔵 Although the color of water and sky is blue, it is recognized as cold, sad,even depressing.
🔵 Blue has a character which makes it suitable for technology and health related brands.
🔵 Blue can also lower the pulse rate and body temperature.
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➡ Blue is the world's favorite color
It is the most preferred color by men. Studies done around the world reveal that a 40%
of people consider blue to be their favorite color.
of people consider blue to be their favorite color.
➡ Mosquitoes love blue
They tend to try to bite person's wearing blue more than any other color.
➡ Blue color is least appetizing
Some weight loss plans even recommend eating your food off of a blue plate.
3. GREEN
Green color is associated with health and prosperity. People also regard green as a source of serenity and peace as it is closely related to nature.
🍀 Green is the color of freshness,health,hope, permission, renewal, safety and youth.
🍀 Negative association of green represents materialism, and possessiveness. It is the color of jealousy, greed and selfishness. It is also widely associated with inexperience.
🍀 As green signifies wealth and nature, today it is widely used in food industry which promotes organic products and everything environmentally friendly.
🍀 DID YOU KNOW? 🍀
➡ Green can improve reading ability
Some students may find that, laying a transparent sheet of green paper over reading material increases reading speed and comprehension.
4. YELLOW
The color yellow can be bright and intense, which is perhaps why it can often evoke such strong feelings.
⭐ Yellow is associated with creativity, enthusiasm, happiness, joy, glory,optimism and pleasure.
⭐ It is the color of attention, but can be irritating very soon, if used in large quantity.
⭐ Negative association of color yellow is, its the color of envy, illness and betrayal. It is also associated with anxiety and irrationality.
⭐ Color yellow also known to stimulate hunger.
Many popular global food restaurants use yellow in their theme.
⭐ DID YOU KNOW? ⭐
➡ There is a reason why you never see yellow in an airplane.
A number of studies have shown that the color yellow can cause dizziness and nausea.
Never used in the interiors of various forms of transportation - most notably, in airplanes.
➡ Yellow can make people lose their temper
People are more likely to lose their temper in yellow rooms and babies tend to cry more in yellow rooms.
➡ Using yellow as a background on paper or computer monitors can lead to eyestrain or vision loss in extreme cases.
5. BLACK
Black radiates elegance and power. People regard black as the highest class and status.
⚫ Black is the color of authority, boldness, control, discipline, protection amd strength.
⚫ Black is often used as a symbol of danger, evil, heaviness and night.
⚫ Popular as an indicator of power of hiding things, it is associated with barriers, emptiness and mysteries.
⚫ Black creates fear, it is associated with death and mourning in many cultures.
⚫ Black is the symbol of superiority, which is why it is the leading color of plenty of upmarket products.
⚫ DID YOU KNOW? ⚫
➡ Black is not a true color
Its's actually a mixture of all colors, what means it absorbs all the wavelength.
➡ People wearing black appear thinner (with right combination and pattern)
6. PURPLE
Purple is one color that can lead to different feelings, emotions and associations.
🔮 It is the color of ambition, extravagance, luxury, magic, mystery, prestige and wisdom.
🔮 Purple is a symbol of loyalty and wealth.
Because the purple is less common in nature, the resources needed to create dye in this color were much more hard and much more costly. Often rich were the only individuals who could afford such expensive item. So purple color is known to be loyalty and wealth.
🔮 This color can be understood as a sign of corruption, imperfection and desolation.
7. PINK
Pink is often described as a feminine color, perhaps largely due to associations, people form during childhood.
🎀 Pink is the color of softness, kindness, nurturance and compassion.
🎀 It might also bring to mind,romance and holidays such as valentine's day.
🎀 DID YOU KNOW? 🎀
➡ Pink can be used to manage anger.
Pink is a soothing color, it suppresses anger and anxiety due to its calming effect. That is why prisons and mental health care instituitions paint their walls in pink to control the behaviour of those out of control prisoners and patients.
8. ORANGE
Orange can be very strong and energetic color.
🔸It is the color of activity, attention, attraction, energy, excitement, success and youth.
🔸Negative association of orange is, it can be recognized as the color of deceit, flamboyance and immaturity.
9. WHITE
White is associated with honesty, innocence, light, peace, perfection, purity and truth.
⚪ It is the color of new beginings.
Suitable for births, weddings, medicine and science.
⚪ On the negative side white can seem stark, cold, isolated and sterile.
⚪ DID YOU KNOW? ⚪
➡ White color avoid vehicular accidents.
Based on studies, it is the most visible color under all conditions except snow.
COLORS DON'T EXIST, THEY ARE ALL IN YOUR HEAD
Technically colors are just results when our brains try to make sense of signals it recieves from the outside. Can you imagine if our brains are not functioning that way? Chances are, our world would be probably look like a scene from the matrix.
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