Why colours are important




















Blue — Blue signifies stability and confidence. Blue unlike red does not aggravate but instead is perceived as a reliable colour. Green — We associate green with nature and anything natural means healthy.

Departmental stores and food brands that want to cater to the health conscious crowd choose green. It is also widely used in hospital logos. Yellow — Yellow is a cheerful colour. It goes with brands that are into lifestyle and entertainment.

Pink — Pink is deemed a feminine colour. Brands who focus on women and girls typically use pink. Pink is also associated with friendliness which would explain why brands like taco bell and baskin robbins use a combination of blue and pink. Purple — Purple has long been associated with royalty due to the rareness of the pigment in olden days. Brands use purple when they want to associate themselves with luxury, royalty. Purple is also said to invoke creativity. Google and ebay are typical examples of this.

Take everything you read above and apply it the other way around. In film colour schemes are used to set the tone of the scene. This is so effective that you know what emotion the scene carries even before the actor utters a word.

Joyous scenes are set in warm colour schemes whereas sad, melancholic tones are portrayed with cold colour schemes. In scenes building up for passion look for reds, impending doom look for greys, creativity and fantasy is usually purple.

The usage of colours in film is a an art in itself. Colours are deeply rooted in culture. While designing its best to have the end consumer in mind. The vibrant orange tones in the painting above express the energized tension of the bullfight.

The wise use of color can improve usability for everything from everyday objects to wayfinding. They help ensure that healthcare workers will deposit infectious materials into the correct container. This concept translates well to the digital world. In user interfaces, color informs users of the most important functions and areas of the screen. Many facets of color—particularly saturation color purity and value range of light to dark —are known to evoke emotion.

But color also creates a mood. Compared to emotion, mood refers to a longer-lasting, milder and generalized experience. Research shows that lighter colors are associated with a more positive affect and darker colors with more negative. Painters and photographers are good at exploiting color value to create a moody experience.

One of the first things we do when looking at a graphic is to group similar items, color being one of the most powerful. Party colors make it easy to see how the senators voted in groups. Verbal language is filled with metaphors for color that translate well to visual language. Feeling blue, seeing red and green with envy are common expressions that are easily decoded from an illustration or graphic. In this example, the green facial features against the crackling green sky leave no question that this woman is filled with envy.

Tagged as: color , visual language. Ironic, because this the Understanding Graphics page contains a couple of contrast, colour and brightness issues that fail those very Guidelines. Thanks for pointing that out, Gary. It concerns the use of as a foreground colour against the white background.

I only noticed it because I have a problem with greys against white. Great article. Very useful information. Colour is something that designers work with on a daily basis. The importance of colour for people in general cannot be undermined as it affects moods and has cultural significance.

We discuss colour meanings and what it means for designers. Colours can be divided into two main categories, warm colours and cool colours. Warm colours would be red, orange and yellow with orange being the most neutral of these. Warm colours are usually associated with passion, energy, enthusiasm and excitement.

These are also the colours of fire. Red, for example, is often associated with anger and danger think of the fact that many warning signs are in red Yet, in countries such as China, the colour red represents prosperity.

Cool colours are more subdued than warm colours and are colours that can often be found in nature scenes, water and at night. Blue is the only primary colour in this spectrum while other colours such as purple and green take on the attributes of warm colours for example, to make purple you need to mix blue and red making them secondary colours.

These cool colours are often associated with calm, abundance green , peace blue and spirituality purple. A colour such as purple is often also associated with wealth, luxury and royalty.

In Taiwanese culture, however, purple is the colour of mourning in other cultures it is more often than not black. One also gets neutral colours such as black, brown, grey and white along with variants of these such as tan, beige, ivory and so forth. These are often used as backdrops on websites and are then combined with more colourful accents to add dimension. Black often represents mystery and power but sometimes also death when used in another context.

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Best prices of the year are almost here! Sign up and be the first to know. Chipolo News Lifestyle. The importance of colors in our life. There is no denying the link between colors and our emotions, and we even have an abundance of idioms to show what way each color can affect your mood. Do you ever feel blue? Are you green with envy? Are you seeing red? Is your world black and white?

There are a few reasons why we react to colors the way we do. Our relationship with colors Not everybody will react the same way to the same color.



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