This document discusses how different colors can affect moods and emotions. It explores the warm colors of red, orange, and yellow which can elicit feelings of warmth, anger, and passion. The cool colors of blue, purple and green are described as calm but can also induce sadness. Specific colors are then examined in more detail, with red associated with vitality and danger, pink with calmness, blue with peace, yellow with happiness, orange with energy, green with relaxation, gray with independence, black with mystery, and brown being the least popular color. Blue is identified as the most popular color worldwide.
2. • Do you feel anxious in a yellow room? Does
the color blue make you feel calm and relaxed?
Artists and interior designers have long
understood how color can dramatically affect
moods, feelings and emotions. It is a powerful
communication tool and can be used to signal
action, influence mood, and cause
physiological reactions. Certain colors can
raise blood pressure, increase metabolism, or
cause eyestrain.
Introduction
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• While perceptions of colour are somewhat subjective, there are some
colour effects that have universal meaning. Colours in the red area of
the colour spectrum are known as warm colours and include red,
orange and yellow. These warm colours evoke emotions ranging
from feelings of warmth and comfort to feelings of anger and
hostility.
• Colours on the blue side of the spectrum are known as cool colours
and include blue, purple and green. These colours are often described
as calm, but can also call to mind feelings of sadness or indifference.
4. RED
• While red has proven to be a color of
vitality,ambition,excitement, energy,
passion, desire, speed, strength,
power, heat, love, aggression,
danger, fire, blood, war, violence,
intensity, celebration, luck, stop or
danger,
5. • Pink has the opposite effect of red. Pink
induces feelings of calm, protection,
warmth and nurture. This colour can be
used to lessen irritation and aggression as it
is connected with feelings of love. pink is
associated with unselfish love.
Pink
7. • Yellow represents Joy, happiness, optimism,
idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine,
summer, It can also be associated with
intellectual thinking: discernment, memory,
clear thinking, decision-making and good
judgment
Yellow
8. • Orange represents Energy, balance,
warmth, enthusiasm. Orange has shown to
have only positive affects on your
emotional state. This colour relieves feelings
of self-pity, lack of self-worth and
unwillingness to forgive. Orange opens
your emotions and is a terrific
antidepressant.
Orange
9. •Green creates feelings of
comfort, laziness, relaxation,
calmness. It helps us balance
and soothe our emotions
Green
10. • Gray is the color of independence and
self-reliance, although usually thought of as
a negative color. Gray indicates
separation, lack of involvement and
ultimately loneliness.
Grey
11. • While comforting and protective, black is
mysterious and associated with silence and
sometimes death. Black is passive and can
prevent us from growing and changing.
Black