The Color Green Common Associations
Ever think of using a soft cool color green in your stationery? Great business card designs can also sport the color green, for the environmentally conscious. However, green also has other symbolic meanings such as wealth, richness or exquisite. It is a colored utilized to communicate to people what to do: red- stop; green- go; yellow-caution. Red, again can also signify danger while green indicates safety. Understanding the color patterns from a psychological standpoint can vastly improve the impact of card designs and stationery.
This amazing color can tell you what does what as well as what goes where: green wire to this place, red wire plugs in here. Coloration is widely used for a code to impart as well as order information and to give instructions.
The cool color green works fine used as a design element and has unique abilities to subconsciously communicate hidden messages to people. You can soften the color green (reduce the tint value) to create and "Alice in Wonderland" effect. Combine that with tints of gold orange and yellow and you can illustrate a truly hypnotizing design. This color can communicate a caring color. It's away to say we care. Supply Pizza chains are created and managed often around the "Home cooked Italian Flavor" by using the Color Green as a symbolic color of one of the colors in the flag of Italy. Hotel chains also take a close look at meaning as it relates to high customer care and hospitality. If you visualized agriculture this is the first color that comes to mind.
Various combinations of blues, golds, yellows, tinted shades of black, dark grey and Orange all make a nice compliment to this colour especially for business card design printing. Financial institutions and websites also employ darker tones of this colour, dark blue and deep red colors because they all are associated with money and finances. Yoga classes will spend time meditating on the meaning of greenish tones and shades. The true meaning of a building that is this colour is low energy wastage and consumption. But it doesn't stop there, people that inhabit homes can have waste materials recycled by using a "green box" that is supplied in some cities throughout the world. It is a color that is alive, recuperative and sound living and signifies sound freshness. It is a simple, pure color without additive colors.
How does it Work?
In school most of us have already learned that yellow and blue make green. Do we also know some of the many variations available? Different tints of green have different meanings to different people. For example the Irish are very closely associated with green. Colors are used to communicate. They can be seen as a bright green light to send the message of acceleration (go) in your automobile. There is the Green Ray which is the Ray of Healing and Truth. As far as having a strong emotional influence, it is neutral on this scale.
It is strongly connected to the color of nature, while dark green is associated with money and wealth. It also has great healing power when used as a used as a neutral transitional color. When we consider garden and landscape design green is surely to be a prominent color.
Whether you use light greens, dark greens or yellow greens it is important to note that the color green is not only a color but a way of living as well. It is a color that dominates our environment at the same time symbolisms environmental concern.
The color green is a medium that holds the real colored components.
Visual, HTML and Approx. Pantone Table Of Dark Greens Color Chart
| A Close PMS Match |
HTML Color |
Visual Color |
296 |
#002D47 |
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog |
2965 |
#00334C |
|
302 |
#004F6D |
|
3025 |
#00546B |
|
303 |
#003F54 |
|
3035 |
#004454 |
|
308 |
#00607C |
|
309 |
#003F49 |
|
314 |
#00829B |
|
3145 |
#00848E |
|
315 |
#006B77 |
|
3155 |
#006D75 |
|
316 |
#00494F |
|
3165 |
#00565B |
|
320 2X |
#007F82 |
|
321 |
#008789 |
|
322 |
#007272 |
|
323 |
#006663 |
|
327 |
#008C82 |
|
327 2X |
#008977 |
|
3278 |
#009B84 |
|
328 |
#007770 |
|
3282 |
#008C82 |
|
3285 |
#009987 |
|
3288 |
#008270 |
|
329 |
#006D66 |
|
3292 |
#006056 |
|
3295 |
#008272 |
|
3298 |
#006B5B |
|
330 |
#005951 |
|
3302 |
#00493F |
|
3305 |
#004F42 |
|
3308 |
#004438 |
|
335 |
#007C66 |
|
336 |
#006854 |
|
340 |
#009977 |
|
341 |
#007A5E |
|
3415 |
#007C59 |
|
342 |
#006B54 |
|
3425 |
#006847 |
|
343 |
#00563F |
|
3435 |
#024930 |
|
347 |
#009E60 |
|
348 |
#008751 |
|
349 |
#006B3F |
|
350 |
#234F33 |
|
355 |
#009E49 |
|
356 |
#007A3D |
|
357 |
#215B33 |
|
362 |
#339E35 |
|
363 |
#3D8E33 |
|
364 |
#3A7728 |
|
368 2X |
#009E0F |
|
369 |
#56AA1C |
|
370 |
#568E14 |
|
371 |
#566B21 |
|
377 |
#709302 |
|
378 |
#566314 |
|
46 |
#0C3844 |
|
5463 |
#00353A |
|
5467 |
#193833 |
|
547 |
#003F54 |
|
5473 |
#26686D |
|
5477 |
#3A564F |
|
548 |
#004459 |
|
553 |
#234435 |
|
5535 |
#213D30 |
|
554 |
#195E47 |
|
5545 |
#4F6D5E |
|
555 |
#076D54 |
|
560 |
#2B4C3F |
|
5605 |
#233A2D |
|
561 |
#266659 |
|
5615 |
#546856 |
|
562 |
#1E7A6D |
|
564 |
#05705E |
|
567 |
#265142 |
|
569 |
#008772 |
|
574 |
#495928 |
|
5743 |
#3F4926 |
|
5747 |
#424716 |
|
575 |
#547730 |
|
5753 |
#5E663A |
|
5757 |
#6B702B |
|
576 |
#608E3A |
|
5763 |
#777C4F |
|
581 |
#605E11 |
|
582 |
#878905 |
|
5825 |
#75702B |
|
626 |
#21543F |
|
627 |
#0C3026 |
|
808 |
#00B59B |
|
808 2X |
#00A087 |
|
|