Monday, April 25, 2016

Color!



       After comparing my choice with those of 200,000+ individuals, I found that we had the same associations for Pure= While, Dignity=Dark Blue, Sexiness=Red, Mourning= Black. All of the other choices differ but a few of them were close in the color spectrum. For example, I selected orange for happy and many others selected yellow. The one association I found most interesting was, “Which color do you associate with a deity?”.  I most people have selected white. I wonder if white represents a deity to most because some speak of seeing a white light after they have had a near death experience. According to our textbook, “Color is light. White light is the mixture of all colors of the spectrum visible to the human eye.”  I personally chose that I do not have a color that I associate with a deity because I view a deity being on a spiritual plane which our eyes do not see instead of our physical realm. I tried to just select the first color that came to mind without thinking too much into it. It is very interesting to analyze the reasoning behind my choices. This color survey could be made into a fascinating psychoanalytic exercise focusing on people’s beliefs and emotions. I am curious as to how colorcom.com is going to use the data they collect. Angelica has a very tedious career matching color. It was interesting to learn how printed color differs from screen color and what steps are taken to align the two.
 
My Favorite Color
 
 
Dignity
 
 
 

Good Luck
 
 
 
 

2 comments:

  1. While doing the survey, I actually had to look the word up to see the true definition of deity. I actually thought to put white down too because for whatever reason it made sense. I ended up putting red-burgundy because it reminded me of wine and wine was the first miracle written about in the bible. I agree that it would be interesting to hear why people chose the colors they did, instead of just knowing the color itself. Lulu

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  2. Once again, Michelle, I appreciate reading your thoughtful comments about color. Your favorite color is lovely! What would you call that? Do you have a lot of that color in your home? I find that when folks ask me about my favorite color, I ask follow-up questions: My favorite color to look at? To wear? To live in? All the answers are different. In case you're curious, my favorite color to look at is green, to wear is red, and to live in ... well, it's more of a color palette, so it would depend. How's that for an ambiguous answer! LOL Dawn

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