Are you an extravert?
People wearing or near more saturated colours are perceived as being more extraverted and open to experience, than people who aren’t; apparently viewers judging others don’t consider the possibility that a sweater or shirt...
Pantone Colour of the Year 2020 – Classic Blue
In 2020, Classic Blue was named colour of the year by Pantone Color Institute, a leading source of colour expertise, the Pantone Color Institute provides colour insights and solutions and announces a different colour every...
Colours around us
We’ve chosen three books which might appeal to you, to show you how colour has an impact on us. Published research makes it clear that the colours on the surfaces around us have a...
Dealing with Colour Blindness
If you or someone you know has colour blindness you might find that you are having difficulty identifying and differentiating between certain colours. Often the struggle is between red, green and yellow, some confuse...
Coordinating Light and Surface Colours
Warm colours generally look best when they’re being lit by warm coloured light bulbs while cool colours are most attractive under cooler lights. So, surface colours and light colours should be selected together. Just...
Create harmony in your home with colour
Using some colours together creates more harmonious or pleasing combinations than others.Among combinations that are more desirable are:The same or similar huesThe same or similar saturation levelsEach relatively light or differ only in lightnessLess...
Silently Signaling With Colour
Cultures have meanings that they link to particular hues—so if you’ll be sharing a space with someone from a different part of the planet, it’s good to get their input on colours you intend...
How children relate to colour
Infants have colour vision, just like adults, using only black and white in spaces for them isn’t desirable. Children are more apt to say that their favorite colour is red than adults, but actually,...
Colour and Gender
[restrict] To settle a continuing dispute in many homes, women do indeed have better colour vision than men (men’s vision is more tuned to moving objects than women’s). So, if you’re trying to decide...
Favourite Colours
Around the world, when people are asked what their favourite colour is they are more likely to say it is blue than any other colour. The colour that people are most likely to say...
Guide People Through a Space
Like moths drawn toward flames, humans approach warm colours. If you want someone to move across a space in a particular way, paint the wall behind the desired final destination a warm colour. Have...
Stop the walls closing in!
What you’ve heard throughout your life is true, lighter colours on walls do indeed make those walls seem a little farther away than they actually are while dark colours on the same walls bring...
Make a Space Seem to be at a Particular Temperature
Warm colours and cool colours are actually appropriately named, surprisingly enough. When we’re in a space where warm colours predominate, we feel a little warmer than the actual temperature, when we’re in a space...
Speed Up or Slow Down the Passage of Time
Time going too fast for you? Time seems to pass more slowly in warm coloured spaces than cool coloured ones. Spaces where people may need to think time is passing more quickly than it...
Seem More Attractive
When men see women against a red background they think they’re more attractive than they do when the same women are seen in front of another colour—and red has the same effect on women’s...
Optimize Physical Performance
Seeing red gives us a burst of strength, literally. If you’re a weightlifter with a home gym, it’s the colour you want to be looking at when you’re working out with your weights. Red...
Influence Appetite
Research generally shows that our appetites get a boost when we’re in a space that features warmish colours and is quashed in areas that mainly use cooler ones. Also, to keep our appetites in...
Support Pleasant Interactions with Other People
Amiable exchanges with other people make our lives better in so many ways, and surface colours can boost them along. Warm colours in a place where you’re planning to spend time with others, whether that’s...
Feeling Optimistic
Seeing the colour pink seems to help women think more optimistically. Maybe this is the colour to be looking at while working with a new recipe for the first time, working out your life-plan...
Encourage Creative Thinking
That sage green mentioned earlier as a great colour for an office was an even better choice than you may have realized—and no, I don’t own shares in a company that specializes in providing...
USING COLOUR
Sometimes, what we really want more than anything from design is for it to help us decompress at the end of a long day or to provide the burst of energy we need to...
The Science of Colour – And How to Use It
Picking a colour to paint something seems pretty straightforward, until you’re staring at the colour chips available. A clear plan of action: “We’ll paint it blue” quickly shifts to “Oh, shit, which blue is...
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