What is the difference between warm and cool colors?
Microsoft Developers Network talks about the difference between warm and cool colors as follows. Warm colors are made up of the red hues, such as red, orange, and yellow. They lend a sense of warmth, comfort, and energy to the color selection. They also produce a visual result that causes these colors to appear to move toward the viewer, and to stand out from the page.
Cool colors come from the blue hues, such as blue, cyan, and green. These colors will stabilize and cool the color scheme. They will also appear to recede from the viewer, so they are good to use for page backgrounds.
How do colors' effects change depending on the other colors in the color palette?
The effects of colors change depending how they are used together in an image. Colormatters.com talks about how red appears more brilliant against a black background and somewhat duller against a white background. In contrast with orange, a red appears lifeless; in contrast with blue-green, it exhibits brilliance.
What are cultural differences related to color and mood?
White is a poor choice for a wedding dress in India where white symbolizes death and mourning. In some Eastern cultures, white also symbolizes coldness and sterility. In China, a man may wear a green colored hat if his wife is cheating on him, whereas green has religious significance in Ireland (Catholic). (From http://iit.bloomu.edu/)
Orange symbolizes warmth, enthusiasm, vibrance, flamboyancy, and is demanding of attention. |
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Blue represents peace, tranquility, calmness and stability. |
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This picture with grays and blacks seems to depict power, mystery, fear, evil and anonymity. |
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