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Red is the colour of fire, blood, danger, love, energy, strength, power, determination, passion and desire. It is very emotially intense and has high visiblity, it normally brings text and images to the foreground.
Variations include;
Light red represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and love.
Pink 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 wrath.
Brown suggests stability and denotes masculine qualities.
Reddish-brown is associated with harvest and fall
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Orange is a warm colour associated with joy, sunshine, tropics and the exotic. It often, but does not always, represent enthusiasm, facination, creativity, happiness, sucess and encouragement. This also has quite high visibilty when used.
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.
_______________________________________________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.
Yellow is quite difficult to see against a white background, especially when the text is narrow. When used appropriatley, however it is quite eye catching. It is associated with happiness, intellect and energy. It can also be associated with negative things, for example, warning signs or cowardice.
Dull (dingy) yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy.
Light yellow is associated with intellect, freshness, and joy.
________________________________________________Light yellow is associated with intellect, freshness, and joy.
Green is usually thought of as the colour of nature. It connotes freshness, growth, harmony, a novice, saftey and money. It is not s eye catching as many other colours but is normally pleasing to look at.
Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.
Yellow-green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.
Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.
Olive green is the traditional color of peace.
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Blue is often associated with depth and stability, appropriate, because it is the colour of the sky and the sea. It symbolised trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, health, tranquility, masculinity, intelligence and truth.
Light blue is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.
Dark blue represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.
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Purple is associated with royalty, power, intelligence, nobility, luxury, and ambition, wealth, extravagance, wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic. Purple is a rare colour in nature and is sometimes seen as artificial.
Light purple evokes romantic and nostalgic feelings.
Deep purple evokes gloom and sad feelings. It can cause frustration.
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White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, perfection, coolness and cleanliness, modernity and technology. A variation of this could be grey. I am unlikely to use this colour except on the paper though :P
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Black is often associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery. This is my most likely colour as it has easy visibility and fits in with the conventions of format.
My chosen colours are;
Purple as it is associated with intelligence, wisdom, creativity and independence, which matches with the ideology of my paper, olive green because it is associated with nature and peace, black as it is a useful basic colour and has easy visibility.
Yellow-green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.
Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.
Olive green is the traditional color of peace.
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Blue is often associated with depth and stability, appropriate, because it is the colour of the sky and the sea. It symbolised trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, health, tranquility, masculinity, intelligence and truth.
Light blue is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.
Dark blue represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.
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Purple is associated with royalty, power, intelligence, nobility, luxury, and ambition, wealth, extravagance, wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic. Purple is a rare colour in nature and is sometimes seen as artificial.
Light purple evokes romantic and nostalgic feelings.
Deep purple evokes gloom and sad feelings. It can cause frustration.
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White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, perfection, coolness and cleanliness, modernity and technology. A variation of this could be grey. I am unlikely to use this colour except on the paper though :P
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Black is often associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery. This is my most likely colour as it has easy visibility and fits in with the conventions of format.
My chosen colours are;
Purple as it is associated with intelligence, wisdom, creativity and independence, which matches with the ideology of my paper, olive green because it is associated with nature and peace, black as it is a useful basic colour and has easy visibility.
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