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Colors & Meanings: Cool

Cool colors make people and environment feel cool and stylish? Let's see the their meaning for a clearer picture and better understanding.

Blue
Blue is a very popular color and can be found in many places; sky blue, ocean blue. It shows the vastness, calm and wondering feelings, yet also deep and complex. Darker blue brings out the wisdom, maturity of a person. In design, too much blue give a moody and depressing emotion. No wonder we have “Monday Blue”.
Blue symbolizes calmness, expansive, vast, reliability, dependant, trustworthiness, wisdom, maturity, depression, moodiness, spirituality, sacred, deep, complicity, sophistication, mysterious, dreamy.

Green
Green is also another popular color used, especially in design. Leaves are in green, so is money. Green is favored by many people as it represents harmony and luck; the green four leaf clover.
Studies suggest that it improves vision as well, so look out the window to your garden after too much eye stressing. But do not wear too much green as it shows the strong jealousy and the envy in a person; sour lime or the green eye monster.
Green symbolizes nature, environmental, health, growth, renewal, fertility, refreshing, smoothing, monetary, luck, jealousy, balance, harmony, stability.

Purple
Purple is a combination of red and blue. Red a warm, focusing, active, driven energy in contrast of blue, cool, calm, expansive, Purple is often relaxing and in relation to nature. It helps releasing of mind, which allows inspiration and imagination, which is favored by many artists. Royal and noble classes are represented by purple. Is that how we come to have purple gold in this modern century?
Purple symbolizes spirituality, nobility, royalty, luxury, creativity, imagination, inspiration, freewill.

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Colors & Meanings: Warm

Most of you must be eager to know the rest, so not to waste time, below are the warm colors and their meanings.

Red
Red is the warmest color in the palette and is attention grabbing. It produces a biological response by quickening the pulse and increasing respiration rate. Thus, it is an emotionally intense color of passion and love, which defines the red in hearts and roses.
Wearing red will show power and confidence and brings out the sensual look in a woman. As red defines power and its association with hot, fiery and danger, avoid red when it comes to anything in relation to fights, violence, quarrels, confrontation, etc.
Red symbolizes sexuality, passion, love, lust, desire, confidence, power, leadership, anger, aggression, danger, violence, vitality, survival, prosperity, joy.

Pink
Pink is a gentle, calm, quiet and relaxing color. It shows the innocent of romance and brings out the charm of a female. Pale pink is a wonderful color to wear on date as it relaxes emotion, making its wearer more approachable. Brighter pink is an energy stimulant and draws attention, often wear by younger girls.
Pink symbolizes youth, fun, excitement, friendship, love, romance, charm, tenderness, femininity, sweet, relaxing, calm, peace.

Yellow
Yellow is the sunny, bright and cheerful color. Brings happiness and improves intelligence of one self as it enhances concentration. Due to its brightness, yellow can be overpowering at times, alerting and cautioning warnings; caution signs are in yellow.
Pale, shallow yellow gives a filthy, dirty feeling and also represents cowardice and deceit, so don’t be yellow. Yellow symbolizes cheerful, brightness, dirtiness, cowardice, deceit, intelligence, alertness, caution, overpowering.

Orange
While bright orange can be attention grabbing, orange shows the youth, cheerful and energetic side of a person. Orange always reminds of the autumn leaves. It is very appetite and emotions stimulating. Unlike red, orange is less aggressive and much more smoothing, not overpowering; cools down aggression and stimulates drive when necessary.
Orange symbolizes mood-lightening, cheerfulness, youth, energetic, enthusiasm, fun, healthy, attention-grabbing, sweet, tasteful, adventurous, sporty, outgoing.

Now you know about neutral and warm colors. Stick with us for the cool colors next week.