Understanding Color & The Meaning of Color
Understanding color
Color plays a major part in the correct reflection of your brand. This visually obvious yet subtle application has a significant impact on the way a brand is perceived by the public. No matter if you’re designing a brand for yourself, a small company, or a corporation the effects of color will not discriminate based on how much cash you have to start. When looking at color options for your brand it’s always best to take a look at other brands to get a clear idea on how color schemes play a part on the perception of brand perception. A company with strong brand recognition, altering the color scheme where it is expected to be maintained can have dangerous results.
Whats Your Color
Today’s marketplace is bombarded with products that are trying to get our attention at every head turn, decreasing the likely hood that your product will immediately stand out. According to the way our natural senses function Color is the most influential, followed by Shapes, Symbols, and finally Words. Here we will look at what colors mean on a basic level, as well as brands that are best known for their recognition by color, color combination practices, and how you can use these methods to develop your own brand.
But make no mistake, brand recognition will make a good company succeed faster and make bad companies fail faster. People attach most of how they feel about your brand according to their personal experience with your products and services. By selecting a color and/or color combinations for your brand you will take the first step in growing a favorable acceptance in your chosen industry.
Color Theory
The meaning of color.
Color meanings vary from culture to culture, and the impact that your brand has on your targeted audience. Here is a list of a few meanings on how colors are interpreted by brands:
Color Wheel
Hue is the primary value of a color and how the color red, green, blue, purple, etc. is perceived through the eye.
Saturation of a color is the overall intensity or brightness of the color, any color that appears dull is referred to as desaturated.
Value is the lightness or darkness of overall colors schemes.
Green: Wealth, Money, Calming, Trees, Ambition, Endurance, Healing, Calm, Generosity, Natural, Completion, and Protection.
Red: Energy, Power, Vigor, Leadership, Courage, Passion, Activity, Joy.
Yellow: Optimism, Childish, Freshness, Law, Education, Arrogance.
Pink: Romantic, Feminine, Love, Beauty.
Orange: Cheerful, Passion, Pleasure, Enthusiasm, Fascination, Creativity, Fun.
Black: Powerful, Mysterious, Elegance, Sophistication, Functionality.
In our next chapter we will dive deeper into how brands are using these colors and how you can effectively use colors in your branding campaign. There are many ways to deliver the correct message using color in your designs which will be covered in later sections. For now you have a really basic understanding of what colors mean and that they just aren’t for decoration but have deliver an intrinsic value in
Joel Black
Determined and savvy, Joel Black’s sharp business sense was evident at a very young age, when he purchased candy to sell to his fellow classmates for profit while in elementary school. Joel is Co-Founder of Black Bear Design Group and is a member of the American Marketing Association (AMA), Web Design and Developers Association (WDDA) and Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
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