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Color Theory

Color theory is a set of design rules that show us how colors work together. By understanding the way colors work- how they mix, repel, and/or complement each other we can start to create all sorts of visuals that can elicit different moods and feelings without words. 


Colors and some moods they represent.

You will find like in life there is some overlap.

alertness

ambition

aggression

battle

beauty

brilliance

charity

charm

circulation

communism

compassion

courage

danger

desire

determination

devotion

domination

eccentricity

emotion

energy

eroticism

excitement

extroversion

fashion

fervor

fire

friendship

hate

heat

high voltage

intensity

life

love

luck

lust

madness

martyrdom

motion

movement

murder

pain

passion

patriotism

power

prohibition

prostitution

rage

rebellion

rescue

revolution

romanticism

sacrifice

sensuality

sexuality

sin

speed

strength

suffering

success

tension (political, social)

thrill

triumph

urgency

victory

violence

vitality

war

warmth

action

ambition

appetite

assurance

celebration

change

charisma

communication

competence

coziness

creativity

determination

disorder

domination

dryness

earth

emotion

encouragement

endurance

energy

enthusiasm

exaggeration

excitement

expansion

explosion

extravagance

extroversion

exuberance

fascination

fitness

flavor

flexibility

friendship

fun

generosity

happiness

health

heat

humanism

humor

independence

invitation

joy

laughter

motivation

practicality

radiation

security

service

society

smile

success

sunset

temptation

tropic

visibility

warmth

warning

wisdom

activity

aspiration

alertness

brightness

caution

communication

confidence

energy

expansion

expression

extroversion

fear

forgiveness

friendship

gaiety

happiness

idealism

ideas

imagination

intelligence

innovation

inspiration

intuition

joy

knowledge

laughter

logic

light

optimism

order

philosophy

playfulness

power

satisfaction

signal

spontaneity

stimulation

summer

sunshine

thought

uncertainty

warmth

warning

wisdom

youth

adventure

aspiration

calmness

cleanliness

comfort

efficiency

environment

equilibrium

faith

fertility

foliage

frankness

freedom

freshness

friendship

generosity

good luck

grass

growth

harmony

health

hope

laziness

life

open air

outdoors

moist

mucous

nature

neutrality

progress

prosperity

quietness

relaxation

renewal

reproduction

safety

security

sincerity

spring

sympathy

vegetation

vigor

wisdom

youth


acceptance

authority

balance

calmness

care

caution

cleanliness

coolness

cooperation

compassion

confidence

contemplation

culture

depression

despair

depth

dignity

faith

flexibility

frankness

freedom

freshness

goodness

harmony

honesty

hope

ice

infinity

intelligence

introspection

isolation

law

logic

loyalty

maturity

obedience

order

peace

piety

power

protection

quality

quietness

reflection

reliability

responsibility

sadness

security

self control

serenity

sincerity

solitude

stability

stiffness

technology

tenderness

tradition

tranquility

transparency

trust

truth

unity

value

virtue

water

ambition

aristrocracy

art

anxiety

beauty

balance

compassion

conflict

contrition

coolness

creativity

drama

dream

dignity

enchantment

enigma

extravagance

fantasy

fashion

femininity

grief

homosexuality

independence

individualism

inspiration

intelligence

introspection

intuition

justice

knowledge

leadership

luxury

magic

majesty

meditation

mood

mystery

mysticism

nobility

nostalgia

passiveness

penitence

preciousness

pride

quietness

reflection

religious devotion

responsibility

richness

royalty

sadness

secrecy

sensuality

seriousness

shadows

sobriety

solemnity

solitude

sophistication

sorrow

spirituality

splendor

style

sublimation

suffering

superstition

truth

value

wealth

wisdom

wit

vanity