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/