Colour Symbolism

RED:

• Revolution, upheaval, fire, courage and zeal
• Love, strength, energy
• Evil and disaster
• Chinese marriage
• Dislikes by the defeated and rejected

ORANGE:

• Luscious flavours and flowers and fruits
• Warmth
• Love and happiness
• Jupiter
• Strength and endurance
• Danger

YELLOW:

• Sun, corn (wheat), hair
• Wisdom, learning, art
• Jealousy and betrayal
• Cowardice, prejudice
• Persecution
• Innovation
• Happiness
• Hindu marriage

GREEN:

• Environmental soundness
• atural and healthy
• Wood (Chinese)
• Water (Da Vinci)
• Envy, jealousy
• Balance
• Marital fidelity

BLUE:

• Sky and sea
• Infinity
• Coolness, ice
• Authority
• Spirituality, heaven, eternity and faith
• Loyalty, chastity
• Prudence, wisdom
• A calming colour

VIOLET AND PURPLE:

• Violet shades:
• Humility, sorrow, nostalgia
• Sensitive and tasteful
• Purple shades:
• Wealth, extravagance
• Rank, royalty, costly

WHITE:

• Innocence and purity
• Moon, joy, glory
• Christenings
• Light, airiness
• Water (Hindu)
• Death and mourning (Orient)
• Western marriage

BLACK:

• Plain black:
• Death, mourning, decomposition
• Negative, rejection
• Grey shades:
• Anonymity, conformity
• Respectability