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Psychology Of GreyBy: Makayla Juniel
Messages, feelings, and symbols
• Grey is a unresponsive, unattached, and neutral color.
• Grey gives off a feeling of exhaustion, dullness, mystery, and discouragement.
• When thinking about grey you might think of old age, because of greying old hair.
• Grey gives a feeling of gloominess, lack of confidence, and lack of energy.
• Although, symbolized as boring, grey can also be identified with security, modesty, andmaturity.
Cultural associations • Christians associate the color grey with mourning
and repentance.• In contemporary culture, grey is associated with
concrete, architecture, machines, technology, photography, sculpting, and memories and dreams.
• Asia’s culture view silver (shiny grey) as cheap.• Japan’s culture associates grey and silver with
maturity, weaponry, and technology.
Fun, fun facts• Pure grey is the only color with no specific
psychological effects.• Adding grey to a color takes away the
synthetic look of the color.• Some companies used grey colored logos to
represent luxury, sophistication, and elegance.
• Eigengrau is the dark grey color you see right after you turn lights off; the transition between lightness and darkness.
Sources• http://www.colorpsychology.org/gray/
• http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours
• http://www.three-musketeers.net/mike/colors.html#silver
• http://www.inspectorinsight.com/semiotics/the-meaning-of-grey-the-colour-of-age-and-wisdom/
• http://www.surveycrest.com/blog/6-revealing-facts-about-color-psychology/
• http://www.ucreative.com/articles/22-intriguing-facts-about-colors-that-you-need-to-know/
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