I was just thinking about this today, because I was remembering about when I was once so angry that I saw red, and then I thought of "red with anger", and that got me thinking. Are there any other emotions that red represents, other than anger? What colors do purple, blue, orange, pink, yellow, fuschia...all those colors -- the "lesser-known", if you will, colors -- represent, if any? Thanks
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People have all kinds of theories for this but according to painters and art schools this is called color psychology, it's a theory that teaches artists to transmit and convey emotions on their work to their public through color, because certain colors tend to evoke specific feelings and ideas to people:
Blue: relax, soothe, and make us feel more spiritual and centered. Blue is intuitively chosen for bedrooms for just this reason. It also improves productivity. Blue is also considered to be a clean color.
Red: it increases blood pressure and respiration rate. Red also makes people lose track of time and stimulates appetite. It is used to represent hate, passion, lust, and volatile situations.
Yellow: causes more eye fatigue than any other color. It increases metabolism and upsets babies. Yellow often makes many people feel cheerful, energetic, and happy but soon fatigued.
Green: Like blue, greens tend to calm and relax; it´s a healing color. It promotes mediation, tranquility and easy breathing. It also represents cleanliness and freshness.
Orange: Oranges are warm, welcoming, and vital. It also tends to improve appetite.
Purple: Its the color of royalty, ambiguity, confussion and morality. Because it used to be the most expensive tone to produce back when painting textiles was a fuss its related to oppulence and authority. It is also related to insanity.
Black: black is not a color, its the absence of color just like white. It conveys void, emptiness and insecurity. It also denotes sophistication when used to paint objects. In art and in psychology it has negative relations to doubt, death and loneliness.
Pink: culturally related to things feminine and womanly, pink is a soothing color. Some prisons use it to calm aggresive prisoners. Its the color of comfort, warmth and tender affection. It's also rather overhwelming when used in great quantities, it becomes syruppy.
Grey: color for the studious, the ambiguous and the bare. It can have an unfriendly or indifferent feeling when its a lot of it.
Brown: security, credibility, and reassurance. It also tends to be soothing and comfortable.
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I was just thinking about this today, because I was remembering about when I was once so angry that I saw red, and then I thought of "red with anger", and that got me thinking. Are there any other emotions that red represents, other than anger? What colors do purple, blue, orange, pink,...
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As a synesthesic, colors for me do have a very personal and personified representation. Red doesn't necessarily represent anger, but an intense and pressured person. Similar to the idea of a person holding their breathe, they can only do it for so long. A dark blue would mean obnoxious, sarcastic, rude. White would be a pushover, a very insecure individual. ect.
As for the general idea of colors, each does imply a mood or vibe. Green may imply clam, neutral. Black may imply cynical and deep. Fuchsia could imply hyper and energetic. Purple could be similar to green, but it depends on the shade of course. Blue, depending on the shade, could generally mean distant or cold, if you will.