#NationalColorDay

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Happy National Color Day! Join us on FreezeCrowd.com to freeze with a favorite color. What is your favorite color in the picture, and a cool fact about it? 🌈😀❄️ 

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National Color Day

National Color Day on October 22 gives you a chance to stop and reflect on the relationship we share with the colors that surround us and the innumerable ways in which they impact us. How long has it been since you stopped by a garden to admire a yellow sunflower, or gazed at the deep blue sky? We invite you to celebrate the power of colors today!

History of National Color Day

National Color Day celebrates and enlightens people about the significance attached to each color. Humans have always shared a deep relationship with the colors that surround them. As we grow up, our tastes evolve and so does our association with the things that we once liked. But this omnipresent element of nature hardly gets its due recognition.

National Color Day is celebrated to recognize the duality of our relationship with colors. We often use colors to our benefit but we seldom talk about the power and influence that our chosen color has on our mood, state of mind, and attention span.

The right color can enhance your beauty and the wrong one can ruin a photograph. Our brains associate colors with memories and shape our experiences of melancholy and trauma. Much of the impact that a color can have on us is based on our biology, and then there’s our personal relationship with colors. The advertising industry reaps great benefits from the color theory, which illustrates our predisposition to some colors. For example, a combination of red and yellow can stimulate our brain — a concept that reflects on the logos of McDonald’s, Netflix, KFC, and Target.

Launched by General Motors in 2009 as a part of a promotion for a brand new Chevrolet, National Color Day has been celebrated ever since.

National Color Day timeline

1700 The Color Wheel

Sir Isaac Newton discovers the visible spectrum of light and studies the impact of color for the first time.

1810 Goethe’s Investigation

Artist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explores the psychological aspects of colors and lays the foundation for the color theory.

1870 The Colorimeter

French photographer Jules Duboscq invents the colorimeter to measure the wavelengths absorbed by a particle.

1898 Alfred’s Photometer

American painter Alfred Munsell invents the photometer to measure luminance, a.k.a., the color value of an object.

National Color Day FAQs

What is the most unpopular color?

According to a survey, yellow is the most unpopular color, with a fan base of just 5%.

Why do people see colors differently?

Rods and cones, the two types of cells inside the human eye, determine what color we see. Wavelengths of a color matter as much as our own absorption of it, because 90% of the color we interpret is based on our memory.

What color is ‘the dress’?

The dress is actually blue and black. Due to the blue light being overrepresented by the shadows, many people see it as white and gold.

National Color Day Activities

Color your stress away

Organize a ‘mix and match’ color event

Wear your least favorite color

Indulging in arts and crafts and painting, in particular, has tremendous benefits. It is more than stroking a brush on paper — painting forces you to connect your body to your mind. October 22 is a great day to reconnect with your inner self.

Mix magenta with yellow and you get red. Combine red and green and you get a shade of yellow. Colors are nothing but a big group project. This National Color Day, educate yourself about how these shades come into existence and don’t be afraid to get your hands ‘colored’ in the process.

Many will advise you to rock your best colors on National Color Day, but not us. Because we believe in embracing change. This year, peep into your closet, pick out a piece of clothing you’d never dare to wear, and step out of your comfort zone.

5 Facts About Colors That’ll Blow Your Mind

Blue is the warmest color

Red comes first

Hate stress? Think pink!

Code green for rest, yellow for panic

Bulls hate red? Well, that’s a lie

According to a study, blue is the world’s most popular color, with 40% of people picking it as their favorite.

Red is the first color that an infant can see, as it has the longest wavelength.

The color pink relieves anxiety and stress because of its calming effect and palliative qualities.

Fixing your gaze on the color yellow can cause nausea, whereas staring at green colors can calm your mind.

Bulls can’t even recognize the color red, let alone be triggered by it — it’s the movement of the muleta that angers them.

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National Color Day Messages, Quotes and Greetings

This day gives all of an opportunity to reflect on the beautiful association we have with colors that are around us. Wish your family and friends on this day by sharing the inspiring National Color Day Quotes and sayings.

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October 22, Day 295/296

Day 295 2015

The rain is back!! ❤️☔️

#rainisagoodthing #flower #closeup #raindrops #nature #outside #outdoors #flora #storm #fall #night #picoftheday #project365 #day295

Day 296 2016

Enjoyed the Gerard Fall Fest this evening. Niece even dunked someone!!

#pumpkin #fallfestival #gerard #october #orange #green #shadesofspooky #picoftheday #project365 #day296

Day 295 2017

Purrfect placement 😹

#leo #me #paw #eyes #kitty #cat #catsofinstagram #meow #kittytoes #catober #october #picoftheday #project365 #day295

Day 295 2018

Beaded butterflies

#beadedbutterflies #butterflies #beads #art #create #colors #inspiration #popart #wildwardhol #october #picoftheday #project365 #day295

Day 295 2019

"Color is my day long obsession, joy and torment" ~Claude Monet

#sculpture #whilygig #glass #metal #color #nationalcolorday #october #october22 #2019 #nationalday #nationaldaycalendar #picoftheday #project365 #day295

Day 296 2020

I've only run across this gorgeous fungus once!

Fluted Bird's Nest Fungus (Cyathus striatus)

#nature #outdoors #upclose #macro #beautiful #flutedbirdsnestfungus #flutedbirdsnest #cyathusstriatus #fungi #fungus #october #october22 #2020 #picoftheday #project365 #day296

This is one of my favorite species.

Day 295 2021

A millisecond before there were at least 3 more turtles here!

#nature #algae #turtles #softshellturtle #redearslider #creek #october #october22 #2021 #picoftheday #project365 #day295

Day 295 2022

I think I could live here...oh, wait...

#galveston #fall #sunset #beach #clouds #water #gulf #nature #october #october22 #2022 #picoftheday #project365 #day295

Day 295 2023

Rick & Rosey

#onespot #seawall #beach #sand #couples #october #october22 #2023 #picoftheday #project365 #day295

Day 296 2024

Just a piece of Greens Bayou out back. So peaceful.

#g #dailytheme #greensbayou #green #water #peaceful #october #october22 #2024 #picoftheday #project365 #day296

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Alredered is celebrating #NationalColorDay to-day.

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It's #NationalColorDay & you can celebrate by watching our video "Rainbow Connections: The Language of Colour" & finding out how colour is connected to poisons & medicines, inventions & scientific discoveries, Greek epics & monsters!

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It's #NationalColorDay today so I'm giving myself permission to spend the day doodling in my #painting #artapps! I need the restorative creative energy input today! This #doodle was created with #autodesksketchbook then I sped it up with @videoshowapp. https://www.instagram.com/p/BpPxpfrH9Or/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lj4q0mv9rbx9

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National Color Day 

Take a look around. What colors are you wearing and what are the colors of the things that are nearby? National Color Day is about learning how colors can affect both body and mind—the day encourages us to learn about how colors can influence mood, emotions, productivity, and behavior. After learning about colors, observers of the day use what they have learned when picking what they wear when they decorate, and when they make other decisions involving colors. Although some sources say the day was specifically created to learn about colors, the day may have stemmed from something else. On October 22, 2009, General Motors launched a National Color Day, which coincided with an online petition to name the color of the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid car that was about to go into production. It appears the day stuck and National Color Day began being celebrated afterward.

Perceptions of colors are shaped in part by past experiences and by culture. Past experiences help us associate colors like red with fire and green with nature. Because of cultural differences, colors may mean different things in different parts of the world. Western culture has associated blue with boys and pink with girls. Some views of colors have been shaped for millennia, while others are more recent. What colors mean also may shift over time. Some perceptions of color are based on biology. For instance, brightly colored plants and animals are often poisonous, so their colors stick out to us. Red symbolizes ripeness and sweetness, so red fruit stands out to us more than green fruit. Some colors can raise blood pressure and some can increase metabolism. Red and yellow are stimulating, and are used in famous brand logos like McDonald's, KFC, Netflix, and Target, while blue skies and green fields can be calming. Colors may have a general meaning or elicit a general feeling, but different shades or tones—lighter or darker—may have more specific meanings. Today we explore all colors and learn about how they can impact us differently.

How to Observe

Celebrate the day by learning about what different colors signify and are associated with, and how they can affect your body and mind and elicit different feelings and responses. Then apply what you have learned when making decisions about colors, whether it be what color to paint a room, or something as simple as picking out what to wear. The following are colors and what they signify or are associated with:

Black: grief, fear, death, power, sophistication, elegance, mystery, evil, anonymity, unhappiness, style, sadness, remorse, anger.

Blue: trust, strength, peace, calmness, serenity, cool or cold, relaxing,  tranquility, suppresses appetite, harmony, unity, confidence, security, order, sky, water, conservatism, professionalism, technology, depression, cleanliness, immortality, loyalty, stability, masculinity, protection, intelligence, responsibility, light baby blue is peaceful, dark blue may mean depth and power, the most popular color when it comes to preferences and usage, used by corporations, used by IT companies, used by social networks.

Brown: earth, home, outdoors, trees, nature, autumn, comfort, endurance, reliability, stability, simplicity, wholesomeness, naturalness, honesty, associated with things that are old fashioned and well-established.

Gray: safety, melancholy, modesty, reliability, intelligence, dignity, maturity, soundness, functionality, old age, grief, professionalism, conventional, maturity, responsibility, formal, dependable, conservative, lacking emotion, safe, serious, subdued.

Green: balance, virtue, cool and relaxed under pressure, nature, environment, good luck, health, vigor, youth, renewal, spring, generosity, fertility, jealousy, envy, misfortune, inexperience, St. Patrick's Day and Christmas, growth, harmony, wealth, stability, renewal, action, dark green is associated with money in the United States—which represents stability and prosperity, dark green also has a calming effect, light green creates an atmosphere of joy.

Orange: approachable, fun, good-natured, power, warmth, energy, balance, enthusiasm, brings health and vitality, expansion, flamboyance, autumn, Halloween, creativity, youth, enthusiasm, combines qualities of red and yellow.

Pink: shows sophistication and sincerity, represents femininity, playfulness, romance, tenderness, sweetness, cuteness, charm.

Purple: royalty, nobility, spirituality, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, power, enlightenment, transformation, luxury, religion, spirituality, combines qualities of red and blue.

Red: stimulating, increases appetite, power, confidence, love, excitement, speed, desire, passion, high energy, heat, aggression, danger, strength, blood, violence, war, fire, intensity, celebration, luck, anger,  associated with Christmas and Valentine's Day.

White: happiness, purity, innocence, virginity, mourning (in Eastern European countries), reverence, goodness, birth, youth, marriage, cleanliness, nothingness, precision, winter, snow, cold, clinical, sterility, minimalism.

Yellow: stimulating, happiness, approachable, fun, joy, good-natured, purity, positivity, power, optimism, sunshine, danger, imagination, hope, summer, gold, dishonesty, philosophy, cowardice, betrayal, deceit, jealousy, disease, spontaneity, warning, youthful.

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It’s National Color Day so shout out to my favorite color purple!! 💜💜💜 #nationalcolorday #purple #favoritecolor https://www.instagram.com/p/CVVdzYrlfdm/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Posted @withregram • @shanthaly Aujourd’hui est la journée internationale de la couleur! Quelle est votre couleur préférée? Today is national colour day! What is your favourite colour? #shanthaly #embrunsalon #613salon #nationalcolorday #haircolor #hair #hairdresser #hairstylist https://www.instagram.com/p/CGr4ie0jyly/?igshid=1nicve6o8utfn

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“And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.” —Black Elk #rainbow #NationalColorDay https://www.instagram.com/p/CGqU6ZpgDPL/?igshid=1l2fy5timpai6

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It's #NationalColorDay & you can celebrate by watching our video "Rainbow Connections: The Language of Colour" & finding out how colour is connected to poisons & medicines, inventions & scientific discoveries, Greek epics & monsters!