{"id":531,"date":"2017-11-16T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh17fall.amandadvite.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2017-11-16T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:52:29","slug":"a-history-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/a-history-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

This project was so interesting for me to look at because of all the colors. I love putting things in rainbow order and color-coding my closet. Seeing all of these covers organized by color really satisfied that little part of me that has color OCD (well, my husband calls it OCD, but I just like to say that I’m organized).<\/p>\n

I watched the graph of cover colors from 1892 to 2011 over and over again, mesmerized by the changes. It makes sense that the covers early on were higher on the brightness axis because they were in black and white, but with more white than black. And it made me laugh that the 70s and 80s had more saturation since we all know that the colors in those decades were super bright and flashy. I expected to see more darker and neutral colors the closer we got to 2011 because I feel like those are the kinds of colors that people have started to wear nowadays.<\/p>\n

These color graphs also made me think about how the public opinion of colors has changed over time. Not every color, of course, but some of them. For example, red has always been a color of passion, but in our present day, it has also become known as a “power” color. The 70s and 80s were a time of flashy neon colors that would now be considered tacky or cheesy.<\/p>\n

Associating oneself with colors is something that humans like to do naturally. We see it in our clothes, our houses, our cars, our home decor, etc. Consider being able to see colors and contrast that with being a baby who can only see in black and white. I wonder what age it is that we start associating ourselves with a “favorite” color. And what if all colors were inverted, like the special effect you can do on a phone camera? Which colors would we associate with different emotions or social statuses then?<\/p>\n

\"Rainbow<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: giphy.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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