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Color Psychology & Fun Color Facts

11/1/2022

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I created the above graphic to help my art and graphic design students understand color psychology. We talk about how colors can have both positive and negative associations and that meanings will vary across cultures and age groups. Feel free to use the above resource as a guide in teaching your students about meanings and feelings behind colors. Here are also some fun color facts!

#1 Blue is identified as the worlds most favorite color.
#2 The colors yellow and red can have an excitable effect on people and often can make people eat faster or eat more than they normally would.
#3 The color wheel was invented by Sir Isaac Newton.
#4 Red is understood to be the first color that a new baby can see. As their color vision develops, the number of colors they are able to see continues to grow until they see the full spectrum of colors by the age of about five months.
#5 Pink has a sedative effect on people. It's for this reason that many sports teams paint the visiting team's locker room pink. (Anything to get an advantage over the competition!)
#6 If you a drive a white car, you are less likely to get into a car crash. If you drive a black car, you are MORE likely to get into a car crash.
#7 Mosquitos are attracted to dark colors and especially the color blue. It is in your best interest to wear lighter colors in other hues to ward off mosquitos if you're in a crowd!
#8 The color "orange" in English used to be "geoluhread" which means "yellow-red". While as far back as the 13th century, the citrus fruit was called "orange." It wasn't until the 16th century that Europeans adopted the same word for both the fruit and the color.

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