More on how colours influence how we think:
- Colours that are not too saturated but relatively light are relaxing for us to view while ones that are more saturated and darker are energizing to look at.Colours that are less saturated have less of the pigment that defines their colour in them, they can seem slightly greyish. So, sage green is less saturated than Kelly green. A relaxing colour for a space would therefore be a sage green with lots of white mixed into it or a dusty blue that’s very light, really little more than a tint. Using the colours shown at the shades of green Wikipedia webpage.
- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_green): seeing the colour celadon is relatively relaxing while looking at a colour such as forest green is relatively energizing. More relaxing colours are better options for areas where you’ll be doing knowledge work type thinking.
- When we see people in front of warm coloured surfaces we have more positive feelings about them, they seem friendlier to us. Oranges and peaches are warm colours, for example, while blues and greens are cooler ones.
- When we see warmer colours we’re apt to act more impulsively, which can be good to know if you’d like to better control your online purchases.
- Time seems to pass more slowly in spaces painted warmer colours than it does in cooler coloured ones, which can be handy to know if you are painting a home school room or something similar.
- Seeing cooler colours seems to suppress our appetite, compared to seeing warmer ones which seem to make us feel a hungrier.
- When there are warmer colours on surfaces spaces seem, well, a little warmer temperature-wise than they actually are while when cooler colours predominate areas are perceived to be slightly cooler—if you have a sun porch that gets a lot or little sun, for example, pick your colours accordingly.
- People seen in front of cooler colours seem more powerful than those in front of warmer surfaces. People in cooler coloured spaces also feel more powerful.
- We are drawn to warm colours, so if you want to lead people through a space, for example, down a long hallway, paint the wall behind the desired destination a warm shade.
- Seeing shades of red (even small amounts, briefly) degrades analytical performance, so reds are rarely good choices for home offices and similar spaces where keen mental performance is the goal.Looking at reds does give us a burst of physical strength, however, so reds can be a good colour to look at while you’re lifting weights in your home gym. “Burst of strength” is really important here; if you are doing something such as riding a stationary bike, which you do over a period of time not just for an instant, red is not a good colour to be looking at; point your stationary bicycle at a different wall in your home gym than your weight lifting station.
- Looking at all different shades of green, again, even very quickly, has been tied to enhanced creative performance.Writing a novel? Paint your home office walls (if that’s where you write) green post haste.
- Women feel more optimistic when they see the colour pink.
- Older eyes see colours as less saturated than younger ones, which affects colours selected and preferred by people of different ages.
- If someone who will use a space is colour blind, you can get an idea how they will experience a space using one of the many apps that help people with colour vision understand what life without it is like.An example: http://colorblindpal.com
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