Color Mood Boosters! How Color Theory Can Change Your Day (even in 2021)

   Color Mood Boosters! How Color Theory Can Change Your Day

Colors are said to be a powerful communication tool that has an impact on our mood and behavior. So how exactly does it work? How can color affect our mood and behavior? 

Colors can make us feel excited, sad, relaxed, and can even make us feel hungry. The psychological effects color has on the average person can go a long way to alter one's mood and emotion. Let's dive into distinct colors and their effects on how we feel.

There are 5 categories of colors:

Warm colors, Calm colors, Happy colors, Energizing colors, Neutral Colors 

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Warm Colors

These include red, orange, and yellow. The warm colors stir up our feeling of happiness, energy, and enthusiasm. Red can sometimes give a signal of danger; activating a sudden action is required. And it can also denote hazard warnings and can help to increase one's appetite for food. It is the most dynamic of all colors and can be associated with passion, love, anger, and danger. These warm colors have an attractive property; there are lively and stimulating. Orange, on the other hand, makes you feel strengthened and excited. It creates a feeling of liveliness and comfort. The last warm color, yellow, gives hope and sunshine, making you feel happy and spontaneous. It is associated with laughter and sunshine.

Calm Colors

These consist of blue, green, and purple. Calm colors can express calmness, relaxation, and stability. Green is an emotionally calming color; it gives a sense of refreshment, harmony, and equilibrium. It symbolizes universal love, environmental awareness, and peace. Calm colors prove to remind us of nature and give relaxative effects. The side effect may include boredomness, while blue, on the other hand, denotes logical thinking, intellectual ability, and calmness.

Purple denotes royalty, wealth, and creativity. The lighter shades of purple; are often used for beauty products because of their soothing effect. The advantage of this color is that it makes a design look more expensive and valuable. And can also be used to display mystery, royalty, and romance.

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Happy Colors

These colors are like warm colors and are formed by combining both primary and secondary colors. The brighter a color is, the happier and optimistic it makes you feel. They include peach, pink, yellow, orange, and red. They can create an uplifting effect on our moods.

• Three Primary Colors: Red, Yellow, Blue
• Three Secondary Colors: Orange, Green, Purple

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All these colors have a role they play in our behavior, emotion, and day: 

Energizing Colors  

These colors affect our emotions, and they consist of bright yellow, bright red, and neon green. They make us feel energetic and confident. They tend to seize the attention and are unique to other colors. Other colors such as turquoise, royal blue, and magenta also have energetic and stimulating effects on our mood and emotions.

Neutral Color

These consist of black, brown, grey, blonde, and white. The brown color denotes simplicity, stability, friendliness, and support. Meanwhile, the black color indicates power, elegance, and luxury. In certain cultures, black color can denote mourning or sadness. Blonde makes you feel confident and makes you the center of attraction

 The white color indicates purity and simplicity giving you a simple, fresh look.  Grey, on the other hand, makes you look professional and responsible. It can also denote a reserved individual who is more mature and dependable. The negative side of grey color is that it can display an overly conservative person.

The information above about colors explains more about our mood, and behavior based on the colors we wear. It furtherly explains several types of colors, what they stand for, and how we can select these colors to get the result we want. It's important note that these are general observations from marketing and psychology but in truth, we are all unique. Your relationship to color has been cultivated over a lifetime and how you express your colorful world is all up to you.

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