Colours and their Significance

Colours: A path of belief, thought and emotion

Colours are said to be the brightest colourful thing in a part of our life. Color is a powerful element of design and is used symbolically to convey messages. It brings light and joy. According to the archetypes of literature, the season of spring symbolise joy, happiness and positivity. When we look out to observe nature, we could find all things around us are alive. bloomed to brightness colourful. Everything around us is filled with life. All are new born like an innocent baby. Colours has its significance and its own meaning that differs in different ways depending on the field it works. Let's go through this

Colours meaning with costumes:

The most common colours used in menswear range from blues, brown, grey because they provide masculinity. For infants, prefer subtle pastel colours. Toddlers prefer blue for boys and pink for girls. Similarly each colour has got its own significance

Colours significance in Religion :

Different religion has different significance for each colour. In Hinduism, according to old tradition a widow is expected to wear white dress. But the same white colour is a colour preferable for a wedding gown for a Christian as it said that white symbolise peace, calmness. Even the priest of the church wear white. That might be a a reason why doves are white. Christian use black dress code during mourning. But the same black colour is the colour of the purdah, muslim women wear. The sages wear a light shade of mud.

Red is a color that is often associated with passion, love and patriotism. It's a color that is featured prominently in a number of flags around the world.
In Asian communities, the color red symbolizes good luck, good fortune and celebration. Asian brides often wear red on their wedding.

Hindus see yellow as the color of knowledge and learning. Lord Vishnu's dress is yellow symbolizing his representation of knowledge. Lord Krishna and Ganesha also wear yellow dresses.

Both Christians and Hindus associate yellow - the color of fire - with renewal and purity.

Not every religion perceives yellow as positive, however. The color yellow in the stars that Jews were forced to wear was associated with yellow fever and triggered non-Jews to see anyone wearing a yellow star as diseased.

Colours significance in Science :

In physic, iWhen beams of light of different colours, such as red and yellow, are projected together onto a white surface in equal amounts, the resulting perception of the eye signals a single colour (in this case, orange) to the brain, a signal that may be identical to that produced by a single beam of light.

When, however, two musical tones are sounded simultaneously, the individual tones can still be easily discerned; the sound produced by a combination of tones is never identical to that of a single tone. A tone is the result of a specific sound waves, but a colour can be the result of a single light beam or a combination of any number of light beams.

School bus is painted yellow to lessen the possibility of an accident for the bus filled with children on the highway.

When the light passes through atmosphere, it gets scattered by small air particles. The scattering of light is inversely proportional to the fourth power of its wavelength. As the red light has the highest wavelength among all the colours, so it is scattered the least. Due to which most of the light gets reflected back and can travel longer distances through rain, fog, dust etc. to reach our eyes effectively.

Colours and emotions :

Red is used to stimulate the body and mind and to increase circulation.
Yellow is thought to stimulate the nerves and purify the body.
Orange is used to heal the lungs and to increase energy levels.Blue is believed to soothe illnesses and treat pain.
Indigo shades are thought to alleviate skin problems