Here's the definitive explanation of colors. Hey, I pulled it off the web. It HAS to be correct!
I've highlighted the important parts for all you miscreants...
Red - Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.
Red is a very emotionally intense color.
Orange - Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.
Orange is very effective for promoting food products and toys.
Yellow - Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energy.
Yellow is often associated with food.
Green - Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility.
Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is also commonly associated with money.
Blue - Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven. Blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body. It slows human metabolism and produces a calming effect.
Blue is strongly associated with tranquility and calmness.
Purple - Purple combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic. According to surveys, almost
75 percent of pre-adolescent children prefer purple to all other colors.
White - White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and
virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection.
Black -
Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.
Black denotes strength and authority; it is considered to be a very formal, elegant, and prestigious color.
