Cold and Warm Colors

The colors used in painting are known as pigment colors and are made up of three primary colors, magenta red, cadmium yellow, and cyan blue. These three hues are primary because they cannot be created from each other. If two primaries are mixed together, a new color will be obtained, which will be known as secondary.

Combining cadmium yellow with cyan blue we will get green, mixing cadmium yellow with the red magenta we will obtain the orange and mixing the red magenta with the blue cyan the purple. On the other hand, green, orange and violet are the secondary colors. And if we combine a primary one with a secondary one, a tertiary one is obtained, such as yellow-green, blue-green or yellow-orange.

Warm and cold colors are distinguished on the chromatic circle

The ranges of colors indicated above can be arranged in the form of circle, also known as chromatic circle. This circle can be divided in half and warm colors appear on one side and cold colors on the other.

Those that are close to red and yellow are the warm ones and, on the other hand, there are the cold colors, which are the closest to blue. In summary, among the warm ones are the different shades of the following colors: red, yellow, brown, gold and orange. The cold ones are blue, green, turquoise, indigo and purple.

The distinction between these two groups of colors is made from the sensation from temperature transmitted by each one of them.

The language of color

Each color tone communicates sensations and generates moods. On the other hand, the impression that we have of a space is given by the colors that are in it. In this sense, warm colors produce a stimulating effect and communicate vitality, Energy and dynamism and visually produce closeness. On the other hand, the cold ones generate a feeling of relaxation, sadness and calm and visually generate a distancing effect.

The meaning of colors is present in all kinds of activities

In the world of marketing experts know what messages they want to convey with the choice of product colors. In activities such as fashion, makeup, politics or the design the choice of one color or another is equally oriented to a specific purpose.

In some way, each color has an effect on our mood. This relationship is studied in chromotherapy, also known as color therapy.

Is discipline it is part of alternative medicine. However, it should not be forgotten that in conventional medicine colors provide relevant information about the physical condition of the patients (for example, yellowish eyes are a symptom of a liver ailment).

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