Colors plays a key role in creating an environment that can uplift our mood and foster learning. It is a meaningful constant for sighted people and it’s a powerful psychological tool. By using right color, you can send a positive or negative message, encourage, calm a crowd, or make an athlete pump iron harder.

Look at our traffic lights to rainbow, they have a lot of significance. The fact that our mood is uplifted the moment we see a rainbow or in between all the greenery we feel serene and calm has a reason.

How and what are these colours doing to us? Colors can also help learning? What colours might be annoying or distracting to online learners? And how can we mitigate that risk?

The effect of combinations of colours on an observer depends not only on the individual effects of the colours but also on the harmony of the colours. Artists and designers have been studying the effects of colours for centuries and have developed a multitude of theories on the uses of colour

So here are some examples of what the colur signifies, so the next time you plan to redecorate your work place or kids room, do consider the right colors.

About  three years back at my workplace we chose to have orange color in my office. HR department with an orange uplifting mood was defiantly a great choice to make.

 

Orange

The color psychology of orange is optimistic and uplifting, rejuvenating our spirit. In fact orange is so optimistic and uplifting that we should all find ways to use it in our everyday life, even if it is just an orange colored pen that we use. Orange brings spontaneity and a positive outlook on life and is a great color to use during tough economic times, keeping us motivated and helping us to look on the bright side of life. Orange aids in the assimilation of new ideas and frees the spirit of its limitations, giving us the freedom to be ourselves. At the same time it encourages self-respect and respect of others.

Yellow

Being the lightest hue of the spectrum, the color psychology of yellow is uplifting and illuminating, offering hope, happiness, cheerfulness and fun.  In the meaning of colors, yellow inspires original thought and inquisitiveness. Yellow is creative from a mental aspect, the color of new ideas, helping us to find new ways of doing things. It is the practical thinker, not the dreamer.

If you are going through a lot of change in your life you may find you can’t tolerate the color yellow very well – this will usually pass. It just means that you are having trouble coping with all the changes at the moment and yellow vibrates too fast for you, making you feel stressed. Introduce green or a soft orange into your life for a while to balance and restore your energies. Many older people don’t respond well to large amounts of yellow because it vibrates too fast for them.

Green

It loves to observe, and therefore relates to the counselor, the good listener, the social worker. It loves to contribute to society. It is the charity worker, the good parent and the helpful neighbour. Green promotes a love of nature, and a love of family, friends, pets and the home. It is the color of the garden lover, the home lover and the good host. It is generous and loves to share, but it also looks for recognition. It is friendly and can keep confidences. This color relates to stability and endurance, giving us persistence and the strength to cope with adversity.Green is the color of prosperity and abundance, of finance and material wealth. It relates to the business world, to real estate and property. Prosperity gives a feeling of safety to green.

Blue

Blue is the helper, the rescuer, the friend in need. It’s success is defined by the quality and quantity of its relationships. It is a giver, not a taker. It likes to build strong trusting relationships and becomes deeply hurt if that trust is betrayed. Blue is conservative and predictable, a safe and non-threatening color, and the most universally liked color of all, probably because it is safe and non-threatening. At the same time blue is persistent and determined to succeed in whichever endeavours it pursues. Change is difficult for blue. It is inflexible and when faced with a new or different idea, it considers it, analyses it, thinks it over slowly and then tries to make it fit its own acceptable version of reality.