colors meanings

موضوع: colors meanings الخميس يناير 01, 2009 5:23 pm

Colors meanings

Red

Is the most exciting color and is known to escalate the body's metabolism. Dark red has anger implications it indicates high energy, determination, and much passion. It is the primary color at the lower or least deflected end of the visible spectrum. Its name is used for shades ranging from very bright, bold red, to reddish yellow or reddish brown. Red has been viewed as the vigorous color of health. Red wool was applied to relieve sprains in Scotland, sore throats in Ireland, and to prevent fevers in Macedonia. The ruby, a precious gemstone with a brilliant red color, was worn in China to promote long life. The color red has also been a representation of love within a relationship between two people. A red rose, given to the bearer's lover or mate has always been known as a symbol of love. As well as the ever-popular red heart on Valentine's Day. Red has come to mean beauty, love, strength, energy, courage, career, goals, power, and willpower.

Orange

Is the only color of the spectrum whose name was taken from an object, the well-known and popular fruit called the orange.
On the visible spectrum this reddish-yellow color lies between, red and yellow the two colors that when blended together are the creators of the color orange. In folklore the color orange stands for fire and flames, lust, vigor, excitement, adventure and wholesomeness. Orange also has meaning for success, stimulating energy, justice, attraction, endurance.

Yellow

Is cheerful but can become irritating if alone for too long. Dark yellow can be oppressive while light yellow is breezy. The bright golden color yellow lies between green and orange on the visible spectrum. The color yellow stands for the positive virtues of faith, constancy, wisdom, and glory. It also has been thought of as being a color that represents playfulness, light, creativity, warmth, mental powers, charm, confidence, vision, joy, enthusiasm, optimism, and an easy going attitude about life. The color yellow also has many negative associations as well; among them are jealousy, treachery, cowardice, aging, and illness.

Green

Is peaceful, the color of a spring meadow. Bright green can be uplifting and dark green evokes the mental image of a grove or forest. Green is the color of freshness and renewal. Reappearing in springtime, after the dull, seemingly colorless winter, it became a symbol of fertility and growth, of abundance and external life. The color green represents harmony, growth, abundance, vitality, healing, and nature and radiates a feeling of fullness. When thoughts of nature come to mind, green, being the color of grass, trees and plants, 99% of the time is the dominant color of one's mental images. On the visible spectrum green lies sandwiched in between blue and yellow. Green means youth, growing, healing, success, good luck, and beauty. Green was a sacred color to the Egyptians representing the hope and joy of spring. Green is a sacred color to Moslems. It is said that green is the most restful color for the human eye. Green has great healing power. It can soothe pain.

Blue

Is the most calming color. It is considered to be the second most powerful color after red, blue is the color of constancy and faith, the color of the heavens and the oceans. The soothing color blue stands for sky, good health from good air, sensitivity, truth, sleep, healing, hope, friendship, protection, calm, creativity, patience, wisdom, peace, loyalty and ones desire to nurture. Around the twentieth century it became a symbolic representation of the male gender.

Indigo or dark blue

Is the color that indicates dignity, tranquility, higher intuition, psychic powers, and trustworthiness. It is as calming and shares many traits with blue but being darker the affect is more intense and powerful. Since indigo has some of the shading of violet, it shares some of the traits of violet as well. it provides calm and coolness without cooling your intent.

Violet or purple

Is the color of royalty but rare in nature and perceived as artificial. Light purple or lavender is a fashion favorite while dark purple implies wealth. A combination of red and blue, purple is a color that has been associated with royalty since ancient Roman times. The color purple is symbolic of power, spiritual goals, passionate belief, visionary leadership, respect and wealth and has been worn by emperors, military commanders, and other high-ranking officials. It also has come to symbolize psychic ability, success, wisdom, power, spiritual growth, and independence. Lavender has come to mean reverence and royalty

White

Is a dichotomy with innocence on one side and sterility on the other, it means everything and nothing at the same time. White is, literally speaking the absence of all color. Or rather, it is the "color" produced by reflecting almost all kinds of light found in the visible spectrum. This is why white clothing is considered cooler than other colors on a hot summer day; since it reflects back sunlight (and heat) rather than absorbing it; as black does. Symbolically white symbolizes truth, purity, peace, protection, happiness, and the masculine divine. White can sometimes have a negative meaning as well. It can symbolize the pallor of death. In China it symbolizes age, autumn, misfortune, virginity and purity and is the color of mourning. The color white projects feelings of calmness, relaxation and an inner peace with ones surroundings and inner soul.

Black

Can represent evil or imply elegance it is popular with artists literally, black means absorbing all light, without reflecting any of its rays. Yet long before the physics of light was understood, the word black was in common use. In many languages and cultures, black was associated with evil (and white with good). Both in art and in religion black signified despair, sin and mourning, satanic ritual, darkness and the underworld. Its use in mourning is very old; it probably comes from the ancient Semitic custom of blackening the face with dirt or ashes to make it unrecognizable to the malignant dead, as well as a mark of grief and submission. The tradition of today's funeral is the wearing of black garments to mourn the loss of a family member, relative, or close friend. Despite the color's many negative associations, in heraldry black, called sable, also stands for virtues of constancy, prudence and wisdom. It also has positive meanings of purity, binding, repelling, remembrance and protection

Pink

Is the color of romance. Pink also symbolizes love, fidelity, friendship, honor, harmony, compassion and faithfulness..

Brown

Is the color of the earth, evoking wistfulness or melancholy. Light brown confers genuineness. Brown color symbolizes animal magic, home, friendship, grounding, herb magic and Earth and the direction of North

Silver

Is the color that symbolizes encouragement, removal of negativity, and moon magic.

Gray

Is the color of neutrality and glamorize
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موضوع: رد: colors meanings الخميس يناير 01, 2009 6:05 pm

soooooooooo which color do you like
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موضوع: رد: colors meanings الأحد يناير 04, 2009 4:17 pm

i like the black

thanks pure daisy

موضوع: رد: colors meanings الأحد يناير 04, 2009 6:23 pm

My favourite colours are pink and purple

i.e the colours of royalty and the colour of romance

but you can say that each colour has its own shine

and you find yourself attracted to some of them at sometimes>

This depend on your feelings, occasion and atmosphere.

Thanks a lot pure daisy because you carried me to live in the world of colours for sometime.

موضوع: رد: colors meanings الأحد يناير 04, 2009 10:16 pm

thank u pure daisy

my favourite colour is black

موضوع: رد: colors meanings الإثنين يناير 19, 2009 11:00 pm

thanks for all of you for passing by ... i like the colors you chose.... my fav colors are green and black but actually i love all colors because each color projects and presents my feelings all the time.... sometimes even if i cant understand what exactly i'm going through or i cant understand my feelings, the colors i choose to wear can express all of that

my dear hedaya thnx alot... what you wrote is so right

all of us needs colors to brighten our lives