KARIBU MAISHANI

KARIBU MAISHANI

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

COLOR MEANING

Color Meaning

Light red represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and lovePink signifies romance, love, and friendship.

It denotes feminine qualities and passiveness.
Dark red is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrathBrown suggests stability and denotes masculine qualities.
Reddish-brown is associated with harvest and fall.
Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.
Red is a very emotionally intense color.
It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure.
It has very high visibility, which is why stop signs, stoplights, and fire equipment are usually painted red.
In heraldry, red is used to indicate courage.
It is a color found in many national flags.Red brings text and images to the foreground.
Use it as an accent color to stimulate people to make quick decisions.
Dark orange can mean deceit and distrust.Red-orange corresponds to desire, sexual passion, pleasure, domination, aggression, and thirst for action.
Gold evokes the feeling of prestige. The meaning of gold is illumination, wisdom, and wealth.

Gold often symbolizes high quality.Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow.
It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.To the human eye, orange is a very hot color, so it gives the sensation of heat.
Nevertheless, orange is not as aggressive as red.
Orange increases oxygen supply to the brain, produces an invigorating effect, and stimulates mental activity.
It is highly accepted among young people.
As a citrus color, orange is associated with healthy food and stimulates appetite.
Orange is the color of fall and harvest. In heraldry, orange is symbolic of strength and enduranceLight yellow is associated with intellect, freshness, and joy.
Dull (dingy) yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy. Yellow is the color of sunshine.
It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.
Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energy. Yellow is often associated with food.
Bright, pure yellow is an attention getter, which is the reason taxicabs are painted this color.

When overused, yellow may have a disturbing effect; it is known that babies cry more in yellow rooms.
ellow is seen before other colors when placed against black; this combination is often used to issue a warning. In heraldry, yellow indicates honor and loyalty.

Later the meaning of yellow was connected with cowardice.Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.Olive green is the traditional color of peace.Yellow-green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.

Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy,is also commonly associated with money.Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety.Green has great healing power. It is the most restful color for the human eye; it can improve vision. Green suggests stability and endurance. Sometimes green denotes lack of experience; for example, a 'greenhorn' is a novice. In heraldry, green indicates growth and hope. Green, as opposed to red, means safety; it is the color of free passage in road traffic.
Light blue is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.Dark blue represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.Dark blue is associated with depth, expertise, and stability.Blue is the color of the sky and sea.

It is often associated with depth and stability.
It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.Blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body. It slows human metabolism and produces a calming effect.
Blue is strongly associated with tranquility and calmness. In heraldry, blue is used to symbolize piety and sincerity.Dark purple evokes gloom and sad feelings.
It can cause frustration.Light purple evokes romantic and nostalgic feelings.
Purple combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Purple is associated with royalty.
It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition.
It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.

White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity.
It is considered to be the color of perfection.White means safety, purity, and cleanliness.
As opposed to black, white usually has a positive connotation.
White can represent a successful beginning. In heraldry, white depicts faith and purity.
Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.
Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown (black holes).

It usually has a negative connotation (blacklist, black humor, 'black death').
Black denotes strength and authority; it is considered to be a very formal, elegant, and prestigious color (black tie, black Mercedes).
In heraldry, black is the symbol of grief.
Black gives the feeling of perspective and depth, but a black background diminishes readability. Combined with red or orange – other very powerful colors – black gives a very aggressive color scheme.

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