Posts Tagged ‘color psychology’
Technicolor Yawn
I have always been interested in color. There is a lot to be said about colors and how the affect us every day. The colors that a person chooses to wear speak a lot about them whether or not they realize it. Conversely, some people know exactly what effects colors have on people and use them accordingly. Even in nature, animals use color for mating, defence, warning, and camoflauge. The same is true for humans. I would not wear a pastel purple button-up to a Tool concert. Same can be said for a Queens of the Stone Age T-shirt at a job interview. It’s about dressing the part. While this was a good exercise in citing clothes, I want to move away from that and talk about color in design.
Too often I see designers haphazardly throwing color in places where it has no business. Perhaps this is my own projection on them, but I feel that they either aren’t aware, or don’t care about the result of their color choices outside their own personal tastes.