Extracting Color FunctionsWritten by Maricon Williams
Colors are as powerful as words. It can communicate though without use of words. It can be as welcoming as a smile yet can be rude as a smirk. We have different perceptions about colors. They can tend to affect our emotions, memories, imagination especially our vision. Designers often neglect importance of choosing right colors. As a result, they’re not getting what they are supposed to get. The viewer’s attention is limited. They can also tend to be impatient. Thus, it is their duty to design not just a good design but a design with right color scheme which makes it spectacular. Advertisers and manufacturers on other hand, must give enough attention to other factors in connection with colors. First is demographics. The market of a particular service may be composed of young or adult or simply elderly. The younger audience is more essential color message should be. Children want neon colors – bright, vivid, trendy and hot. Teenagers like diversities thus they can settle to any kind of color like pastel, neon and solid colors. Adults, on other hand want solid and formal colors. But if your audience is general then you can be safe with conventional colors. Colors greatly affect our moods. Warm colors like orange and red make us feel secured and safe. Cool colors like green and blue create a relaxed atmosphere. Now you will no longer be surprised why red is a color which is widely used. This is because warm colors grab attention instantly. Your choice of color must be linked with gender, ethnic and cultural inclination of your target audience. In China, you wear white when you are mourning however in North America it is used to connote snow, youth and is color of bridal gowns. Caucasians color for power is red while Hispanic’s blue. We are living in a diverse world thus we have to extract meaning of every color in relation to every one.
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