Meaning of a color

Apparently there are still many designers who do not understand how the meaning of a color. Whereas in the design of the color sense is very important, to design more in keeping with the concept of custom-made. Even more to make packaging design and logo design, color sense is very important. Here I will explain some of the meaning of a color, may be useful for you:

1. Red
The red color has a meaning, courage, passion, love, aggression, lust, danger, energy, adrenali / challenges, anger and revenge.
Red is the color of the dramatic, interesting and rich.
But the red color can change the meaning when combined (combined) with other colors. Red with green, can be a symbol for the celebration of Christmas. And in China, when the honor of a celebration (imlek, etc.), they always use red and yellow, red means here can have a sense of joy and festivity.
The red color is also used as the color of leadership and courage. For example in the movies super hero the kids, like power ranger, Ultraman, spiderman. hehehe ^ ^

2. Blue
The blue color has a meaning of intelligence, faith, peace, order, trust and technology.
In the sense of trust, blue often used as the logo of a bank. Let’s see, how many banks in Indonesia, which uses blue. Perhaps most banks using blue logo
Blue can be used to reduce appetite, because it may be odd if the blue is used as a food coloring. Blue is not included in the color palette of nature-inducing

3. Green
Green means a natural, healthy, and a renewal
Green, in the Middle East is preferred. But in the global scope, the green color is not too dominant. Even in China and France, green rarely made as the design of a packaging

4. Yellow
Yellow color means the philosophy of meaning, hope, dishonesty, happy, energetic.
Yellow color can be defined as active, look at energy booster drink advertisements that are known Indonesia, packaging uses yellow

5. Purple
Purple means arrogance, power, royalty.
Try to make a web or blog design is out of the box, and think using the wealth of purple

6. Brown
Brown color means the energy, balance, warmth, soil, durability, and comfort.
In Colombia, the color brown for packaging less successful. But the brown color is often used in the packaging states in America.

7. Abu-Abu
Gray color has a meaning of the millennium (future), minimalist and intellect.
Gray is easy to remember by eye

8. Black
The black color has a meaning of death, mystery, fear, grace and kecangihan.
For packaging color, black can symbolize elegance, Prosperity and sophistication

9. White
White color means clean, perfect, holy.

That’s all, enlightenment from me about the color. Sometime I add again, hopefully useful.

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