Wikipedia says that Yellow is ” is commonly associated with gold, wealth, sunshine, reason, optimism and pleasure, but also with cowardice, envy, jealousy and betrayal. It plays an important part in Asian culture, particularly in China (personally I don’t believe the bit about the bad associations….).
Simply put, yellow is the color the eye sees when it looks at light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nanometers, the wavelength of light between green and orange.
In the language of optics, yellow is the evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M (long and medium wavelength) cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S (short-wavelength) cone cells.[12] Light with a wavelength of 570–590 nm is yellow, as is light with a suitable mixture of red and green. Yellow’s traditional RYB complementary color is purple, violet, or indigo, while its colorimetrically defined complementary color in both RGB and CMYK color spaces is blue.
Who knew that my favourite colour in the world was worthy of such a lengthy, technical and wordy description?
Yellow has been my favourite colour forever. I find it impossible to look at the warmth and happiness of yellow without feeling just a little bit better about life. Tragically I am unable to wear the colour yellow as it makes me look insipid and scary. This is a matter of some distress to me. However, I compensate by planting plenty of yellow in my garden, hence my pic of these beautiful yellow daisies. Cheerfulness in a pot.
Yellow has to be the right yellow. Not a cold bluey yellow, or a sickly mustard yellow, but bright and clear like a canary or a daffodil. Yeah, that’s the way to rock yellow.
So next time you are feeling a little blue, expose yourself to a little yellow colour therapy. See if it doesn’t just make your day that tiny bit brighter 🙂 ♥
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