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Meaning & Associations
Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure.
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.
Cultural Interpretation
China Good luck, celebration, summoning
Cherokees Success, triumph
India Purity
South Africa Color of mourning
Russia Bolsheviks and Communism
Eastern Worn by brides
Western Excitement, danger, love, passion, stop,
Christmas (with green)
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Meaning & Associations
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.
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.
Cultural Interpretation
Ireland Religious (Protestants)
Western Halloween (with black), creativity, autumn
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Meaning & Associations
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. Yellow is seen before other colors when placed against black; this combination is often used to issue a warning.
DULL (DINGY) YELLOW represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy.
LIGHT YELLOW is associated with intellect, freshness and joy.
Cultural Interpretation
China Nourishing
Egypt Colour of mourning
Japan Courage
India Merchants
Western Hope, hazards, coward
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Meaning & Associations
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.
LIGHT BLUE is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.
DARK BLUE represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.
Cultural Interpretation
Cherokees Defeat, trouble
Iran Color of heaven and spirituality
Western Depression, sadness, conservative, corporate, “something blue” bridal tradition
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Meaning & Associations
Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety.
It is the most restful color for the human eye; it can improve vision. Green suggests stability and endurance.
DARK GREEN is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.
YELLOW-GREEN can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.
AQUAis associated with emotional healing and protection.
OLIVE GREEN is the traditional color of peace.
Cultural Interpretation
China Green hats indicate a man’s wife is cheating on him, exorcism
India Islam
Ireland Symbol of the entire country
Western Spring, new birth, go, Saint Patrick’s Day, Christmas (with red)
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Meaning & Associations
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.
LIGHT PURPLE evokes romantic and nostalgic feelings.
DARK PURPLE evokes gloom and sad feelings. It can cause frustration.
Cultural Interpretation
Thailand Color of mourning (widows)
Western Royalty
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Meaning & Associations
White is used to suggest simplicity in high-tech products. White is an appropriate color for charitable organizations. White is associated with hospitals, doctors, and sterility, so you can use white to suggest safety when promoting medical products.
BRILLIANT WHITE is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection.
PURE 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.
Cultural Interpretation
Japan White carnation symbolizes death
Eastern Funerals
Western Brides, angels, good guys, hospitals, doctors, peace (white dove)
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Meaning & Associations
PURE 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’).
NIGHT 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.
Cultural Interpretation
China Colour for young boys
Western Funerals, death, Halloween (with orange), bad guys, rebellion
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