Interpreting Color

Table of Contents

Topic
Part A: What is Color all about?

• Definition
• Color and Meaning
Red
Pink
Yellow
Orange
Blue
Green
Purple
Brown
Black
Gray
White

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Part B: Culture in Culture

• Role of Color in Culture and Society refer to book 1 pg 33
• Weddings
• Death Rituals
• Religion
• Color Myths, Biases and Symbolism
Neutrals
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Violet
Colors and Children

Part C: Color in Business

Part D: Color and Cure
• Color/ Light and the Human Health
• Researches on Color and its Effect
• Ultraviolet Light
• Color/Light in Health Care Facilities

Part E: Color and You

• Aspects and Moods of Color
• Color Preference and Personality

Part A: What is Color all about?

Although color forms a major part of life, we only have a vague understanding of what it really is. This research paper aims to explore the meaning, impact and significance of color.
Before moving on, it is important to first define color. So what is color? Color is an illusion. Our environment only appears colored to us. When the eye sees the color, it is only being fooled by it because the world is virtually colorless. The world actually consists of achromatic (colorless) substances and electromagnetic waves that differ from one another only in their wavelength. Color is a small part of the vast electromagnetic band that connects everything. The multicolored appearance of the environment is only the result of the interactive visual process. What we experience as color and the sensation that results from it is simply within our brains.
Color and light have a close relationship. Color is constantly changing because light is constantly changing. The color composition of natural light changes from dawn to dusk, from summer to winter, from north to south and from east to west. Simply speaking, light and hence colors in California are different from what they appear in... [continues]

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