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Thursday, August 29, 2013

color connotations

These are the words I thought of while brainstorming about each color. Honestly, it was a lot more difficult to think of things than I thought it would be. Not a lot came to mind, and the same words often came up for various colors.

bright red 186: anger, passion, fire, hot, heart, power, frustration, yelling, attention-seeking, seductive, summer, arrogant, flash, important, stop

vibrant orange 1585: fire, hot, childish, warm, pumpkins, sweet, friendly, fall, spicy, latin

bright yellow 116: sunshine, warmness, lightbulbs, naivety, childhood, urine, jarring, bright, loud, enveloping, light, airy, bridge logo

earth brown 438: nature, autumn, fall wedding, october, loneliness, content, dirt, mud, sticky, chocolate, smooth

deep blue 2747: water, depth, envelop, calming, soothing, energy, pools, evening sky, photoshop logo, sophistication, richness, common, sad, tears

chartreuse green 584: grass, vomit, philly cheesesteaks, germs, villainous, olives

blue purple 267: children, preschool, floral, royalty, love, wise, innocent, wedding

charcoal gray 425: stark, alone, loneliness, clouded, clean, simple, modern, common, in between, depressed, rain, cloudy, dark, sad

white: absence, bright, clean, common, simplicity, modern, light, divide, contrast, pop, attention seeking, transparent, weddings, peaceful

black: void, clean, contrast, cover, take over, death, bleakness, sadness, pit, blank, combination of everything, modern, formal, coffee

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