Colour Symbolism
Colours are rich with symbolism. This symbolism can be apparent in how an individual or a community associates colours with things, objects or physical space.
Colour is powerful. It is stimulating, healing, soothing and fun.
Colour is inseparable part of our everyday lives and its presence is evident in
everything that perceive.
Colours are rich with symbolism. This symbolism can be apparent in how an individual or a community associates colours with things, objects or physical space.
Warm colours are made with orange, red, yellow and combinations of them
all. Cool colours such as blue, green and light purple have the ability to calm
and soothe. Where warm colours remind us of heat and sunshine, cool
colours remind us of water and sky.
Every colour elicits a different and unique emotional response in the viewer. Colours have a strong impact on our feeling s and emotions. Moreover, some colours may be associated with several different emotions and some emotions are associated with more than one colour.
Aside from the obvious fact that pills are more attractive to the eye, colour
has indeed benefited consumers as well as the pharmaceutical companies
in several very functional ways
Colour is an expressive element in architectural design and can be used to emphasise the character of a building and create harmony and unity, or
it can be deliberately contrasting to enliven or emphasise. It may affect
the way in which people respond to their surroundings and can enhance
a mood of calm or elation.
There are two different kinds of colour that we see in the world. First, there's
the colour you can touch, such as the skin of an apple or a painted wall.
Next, there's the colour you can't touch, such as a beam of red light
and the colours produced by your computer monitor.
The human eye and brain together translate light into colour. Light receptors within the eye transmit messages to the brain, which produces the familiar sensations of colour.