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YELLOW colour

Yellow is the colour of sun, light and optimism, colour of the mind and intellect. The colour which stimulates, activates and frees from fear.

 

It stimulates our mental ability, creating a mental skill and perception. Yellow offers hope, happiness, playfulness and fun.

 

Mental aspect of creative yellow colour, it is the colour of new ideas and help us in searching for new routes, operating modes. Yellow is the best colour to create excitement in life, it can awaken greater confidence and optimism.

Yellow likes challenges, particularly mental challenges. It helps us when making decisions, when concentrating and focusing, for example: when studying and during exams.

 

People who just go through big changes in life, at that moment hardly tolerate yellow. They have difficulties in dealing with all the changes which lead to stress. With combination of green and soft orange, they are all together in balance.

 

Positive characteristics of yellow are: optimism, cheerfulness, enthusiasm, fun, humor, confidence, originality, creativity, wisdom, logic.

 

Negative characteristics of yellow are: criticism, impatience, impulsiveness, egoism, pessimism, inferiority complex, cowardice, no feelings, no compassion.

 

 

 

 

 

​​PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF YELLOW

Yellow increases blood pressure, accelerates pulse, increases breathing rate, has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, liver, pancreas and gallbladder. It cleans digestive tract.

Yellow is the colour of sun, light and heat. It stimulates, activates, and is playful. It maintains alertness, promotes concentration and motor skills. It is the colour of happiness and joy. Yellow colour is a mental stimulant.

 

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PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF YELLOW

Yellow is the brightest of all primary colours, it is the colour of sun, glare expression and liveliness.

The psychological effects of yellow: logic, intelligence, optimism, clarity of thought, joy, revitalising, brightness, ...

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COLOUR OF SOUL

If you like to dress in yellow you are lively, vital, cheerful, ambitious, curious, spontaneous and communicative.

If you do not like to wear yellow, it may indicate a loss of personal power and disappointment in life

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COLOUR MEANING IN ROOM

Yellow works best in kitchens, living rooms and rooms for recreation. It is recommended in places where learning, studying (mentally active) because it helps to concentrate. It revives and brightens every room, making it warm and sunny. That is why yellow is not suitable for the bedrooms. It maintains alertness. 

Because it is a very powerful colour, it is supposed to be used only for addition and smaller areas. If wanted to be used on larger areas, lighter shades of yellow are recomended.



 

COLOUR MEANING IN AURA

Person with yellow aura is sunny, thrilled, happy, bright, has a great sense of humor and is fun. Usually optimist, intellectual and open to new ideas.

 

COLOUR MEANING IN FENG SHUI

Yellow colour in Feng Shui, including gold, represents power. It gives a sense of tolerance, wisdom and patience.



 

COLOUR MEANING IN DREAMS

In dreams, it represents intellect and mental activity, ability to rationalize.

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COLOUR MEANING CLOTHES

Yellow is cheerful, sunny and attracts attention. Active people who feel open and young, like to wear yellow.

 

Yellow is recomended to be worn by those who want solitude in order to shake off the attachment to someone. It is suitable (yellow fashion accessories) for a job interview, because it helps us with clear expression, it encourages rational thinking, improves memory, gives strength and reinforces self-confidence.

 

It should be avoided, when person is prone to criticism. It may cause irritation , weakness and encourages egoism.



 

COLOUR MEANING AT WORK

It is a hallmark of uniforms as a symbol of loyalty to the company and synonymous for communication skills.

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SYMBOLISM OF YELLOW

Yellow symbolizes joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy and friendship. In some cases it can mean betrayal, dishonesty, cowardice, jealousy, greed, deception, disease, danger.



 

CHROMOTHERAPY

Yellow strengthens nervous system including brain. It stimulates metabolism, helps with curing diseases of glands, has a soothing effect on stomach, and skin (by opening the pores and regenerating). It helps with treatment of rheumatism and arthritis.

Yellow is effective in treatment of anemic children.

Yellow light can be successfully used when treating nervous and psychopathic disorders.

It has positive impact on treating tuberculosis.



 

COLOUR MEANING IN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS

Yellow means summer in Italy, benevolence in Ukraine, envy in Germany.

In Mexico, Egypt and Ethiopia it is the colour of mourning.

In South Africa, it means health, in Japan courage.

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YELLOW AS SECURITY COLOUR

It is a signal for caution, because it is most visible. It is used on outwardly projecting parts of machines and different things as a label or sign, also on different barriers, changes in floor level... Especially seen when combined with black.



 

SHADES OF YELLOW

Cloudy yellow (calming, thinking), live yellow (vivacity, boldness), olive green (gloom mood), citron yellow (alertness, vigor, refinement)

golden ocher, corn, desert, honey, lemon, lily, bamboo, pear, chamomile, ...



 

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YELLOW COLOUR

Yellow is the colour of mourning in Egypt and Burma.

Yellow can symbolise jealousy and deceit (France) and sadness (Greece).

For holistic healers it is the colour of peace.

Yellow ribbon is a sign for support to the soldiers at the front.

If someone is said to have yellow lines, it means that person is a coward.

Hindus in India wear yellow when celebration the festival of spring.

In 10th century, in France criminals and traitors got their frontdoor painted with yellow.

In India it can symbolise farmers or traders.

Executioneers in Spain in old days wore yellow.

In US, taxis and school buses are yellow.

For old Aztecs yellow symbolized food (corn).

Yellow flag means quarantine.

 

 

 


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