colors

• Blue


  Represents peace, tranquility, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, and depression
• Blue


  • Slows the pulse rate, lowers body temperature, and reduces appetite
  • Reflects reliability (considered a business color)
• Black


  • Absence of light and therefore, of color
  • Represents power, sexuality, sophistication, formality, elegance, wealth, mystery, fear, evil, anonymity, unhappiness, depth, style, evil, sadness, remorse, anger, underground, good technical color, mourning and death
• Phrases using black


  • Don't let a black cat cross your path
  • Black Market
  • Black Monday
• Green


  Represents nature, environment, health, good luck, renewal, youth, vigor, spring, generosity, fertility, jealousy, inexperience, envy, misfortune
• Orange


  • Combination of yellow and red
  • Warm color like red, but to a lesser extent
  • Expresses energy
  • Has luminous qualities and has been used for attention-getting purposes, such as on caution signs
  • Symbolizes balance, warmth, enthusiasm, vibrance, flamboyancy, and is demanding of attention
• Orange


  • Fall leaves, pumpkins and Halloween
  • In Ireland, has religious significance (Protestant)
• Orange


  • Its cool quality soothes, calms, and has great healing powers
  • Often worn in operating rooms by surgeons
• Red


  • The warmest and most energic color in the spectrum
  • Associated with love, valentines, danger, desire, speed, strength, violence, anger, emergency exit signs, stop signs and blood
  • Evokes a fight-or-flight response, raises blood pressure and makes the heart beat faster
  • Not the color of choice for psychiatric wards, prisons or a hospital
• Red


  • In China, symbolizes celebration and luck, used in many cultural ceremonies that range from funerals to weddings
  • In India, the color of purity (used in wedding outfits)
• White


  Represents reverence, purity, simplicity, cleanliness, peace, humility, precision, innocence, youth, birth, winter, snow, good, sterility, and marriage
• Yellow


  Represents joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, betrayal, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard, spirtuality and inspiration
• Yellow


  • The yellow rose is a symbol of friendship, less passionate or threatening than red ones
  • In Asia, yellow is sacred, and imperial