The bright green is often used for the call to Rebel for Life, the washed-out green for assertions of non-violence, blue for Act Now, yellow for Beyond Politics and pink for Tell the Truth.
Red has been used as a colour of war and rebellion for many historic events. 'Red: the blood of angry men' sing the French revolutionaries in the musical Les Misérables while the British army were known as the 'red coats' during the American Revolution.
Summary: A new study shows that the color red may tempt certain personality types to rebel against expectations rather than comply.
Red. This is the color of aggression and passion—great for a first date, not so great for the office. It also increases metabolism and raises blood pressure, which is why it's used for stop signs and fire engines. Red can be seen as a bit hostile in the work environment, so think twice before wearing it often.
“Yellow is the colour of madness, perhaps inspired by Vincent van Gogh, and his obsession with yellow. In England we say “Mad as a March hare”, as hares tend to behave erratically in March.
Red is pre-eminently the color for flags because it symbolizes struggle, life and revolution.
Red – For Danger, Passion, Excitement & Energy.
Rebellion & Nonconformity
Black also has a rebellious side. It can represent a refusal to conform to society's expectations.
Its name is a tribute to the Dutch-born Protestant king William of Orange, who defeated Catholic king James II in the Williamite–Jacobite War (1688–1691).
Yellow has diverse meanings across cultures and continents: Europe: In France, yellow signifies yellow signifies jealously, betrayal, weakness, and contradiction. In the 10th century, the French painted the doors of traitors and criminals yellow.
For example, in Hallock's study, he discovered that purple is one of men's least favorite colors, but it's also a color they associate with the concepts of bravery and courage. This is interesting in that it underscores the subjective nature of color perception.
According to color psychologists, the most stressful and anxiety-inducing color is 'red'. Red room ideas can be too intense for some people – could your red decor be one of the reasons why your friends hate your house? It reminds us of danger and is a color that makes you angry.
Researchers say anxious and distressed people choose gray shades to describe their mood. Healthy people prefer yellow.
Grey. According to color psychology, the color grey implies a dark state of mind, a colorless and monotonous life; grey is also associated with misery and depression, so it is easy to see why it is a color that is known to cause anxiety.
Black is a primary color across all models of color space. In Western culture, it is considered a negative color and usually symbolizes death, grief, or evil but also depression.
Color can be used to convey allot of information but in particularly when it comes to telling who is good and who is evil. The most common color to use when displaying good and evil is blue for good and red for evil.
When it comes to depression colors, gray and blue tend to be high on the list of those associated with low mood. In a 2010 study using the Manchester Color Wheel, experts found gray was the color people pointed to when asked to reflect feelings of depression.
Along with warmth and happiness, yellow also represents cowardliness and deceit. "We recognize the deceitful Judas very often in ancient pictures from the fact that he is given dingy yellow robes," she wrote.
This similarity yellow has with gold can also be used as a form of trickery: in the tenth century in France, doors of criminals and traitors were painted yellow.
Sadness. “Gray” was the most frequent color indicated for sadness, followed by “indigo” and then “black” (Figure 1).
choleric (red/orange/yellow): tyrants, heroes, adventurers; sanguine (yellow/green/cyan) hedonists, lovers, poets; phlegmatic (cyan/blue/violet): public speakers, historians.
So, it's not a surprise that yellow has been adopted by many protesters around the world as the symbolic color to communicate their ideals.
For example, red has been shown to enhance, among others, perceived attractiveness, dominance, anger, and aggressiveness (Elliot and Niesta, 2008; Stephen et al., 2012; Elliot and Maier, 2014; Wiedemann et al., 2015).
As the war dragged on, that changed. The soldiers of the Union Army wore blue uniforms and the soldiers of the Confederate Army wore gray. Today, that's how many people remember the two sides—the North wore blue, and the South wore gray.