Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Brown - Color symbolism and psychology

Brown is the color of dirt, giving it an earthy, environmental quality which is popularly coupled with green. Shades of brown represent skin tones and produce a comforting feeling. Brown symbolizes calm, boldness, depth, natural organisms, nature, richness, rusticism, stability, tradition, anachronism, fascism, boorishness, dirt, feces, dullness, filth, heaviness, poverty, roughness, earth (classical element), October, Capricorn, Scorpio (reddish brown, star signs), and down-to-earth. Brown can stimulate the appetite, wholesomeness, steadfastness, simplicity, friendliness, and dependability.
Color symbolism and psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

nature, earth, soil, skin, classicism, ancient philosophy, knowledge, maple leaf, chocolate, caramel and peace

Brown is a color

Brown, when used as a general term, is a color that is a dark yellow, orange, or red, of low luminance relative to lighter or white colored objects.
Some amber and yellow colors of lower saturation are called light browns.
Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia