I guess they’d be regarded as ‘acid’ or ‘extremely unnatural’ in other historical period or in other culture. Modern UI uses colors that are bright, vivid, and pleasant for the eye nowadays. Emotions are driven by combinations, via balance, via synergy, but never by damn single color.ĭon’t know how to add more vertical space before headers. Check out cutting-edge wearable products from Jawbone, ensure there is nothing wrong with the colors at all. There are so many real life cases when vivid violet, orange, blue are used and it looks positive, emotionally positive. The perception of colors is different today, seems it was different for years. What about violet fairy? Violet lavender fields, violet blossom? Blue is common on concerts, check out pleasant folk music by Blackmore’s Night… Horizon is often blue and there is nothing sad about it. The color wheel says violet is disgust, distate, disappoint blue is sad, grief. Orange Lambo is standard color and all good with emotions. Oranges are no way nervous or concerned, it is common daily juice. The color wheel says orange is nervous, worried, concerned, confused yellow is afraid, apprehensive… Let’s see what we have and use in orange and yellow and check out emotions. There are so many positive reds in the nature, society, technology etc. Strawberries, watermelon, cherries, apples, pomegranates are red. On Google Maps you have red location balloons. On metropolitan maps you have “You are here” in red. All wedding packages are using red for love and passion. St Valentine stuff is all red and it is about love. Really? What about Christmas cards and stripes? They are all red. The color wheel says it is about feeling angry, irate, frustrated, aggravated. Let’s question several colors exclusively, e.g. Take a look at this color wheel of emotions, it is available in high resolution and better quality online as PDF. Especially about modern relations between colors and emotions. This post will be about colors and emotions.

Do2learn emotions color wheel