Just like each note of music or alphabets, there is something else that has a deep association with our emotions – the colors. A whole range of experiences and emotions can be related to colors and there’s more than just a vague, generic meaning to it when we say “I still got the blues” or “golden days of our lives”. Now, many of us might have associations to colors that are particular to us such as associating red to an old roof of a house at the street we grew up in or the brown boots that laid untouched in the attic for years. However, colors do have emotional connections beyond personal associations which are universal to all of us. Let’s find our more.

Yellow – the color of hope

The lighter hue in the spectrum, yellow reminds us to be cheerful. Resonating with the logic side of the brain, the color stimulates the faculties of logic and clear perception which makes us hopeful of the days to come. It’s easier to be effortlessly happy in the sunny afternoons of autumn, with leaves strewn around the steps you take and dandelions tossing their heads in the breeze – you can’t argue that the tone of the scene you just imagined was yellow.

It’s liberated, cheerful, gleeful like an open armed child. Many poets have described yellow in sprightly, enlivening and effervescent poeticism . Take Emily Dickinson for example who writes, “Nature rarer uses yellow….Yellow she affords,Only scantly and selectly, Like a lover’s words.”

Orange – The color of vibrancy and vitality

Although as gleeful and joyous like yellow, there is something more intense about orange. If yellow reminds us of the warmth and fervency of sunshine, orange reminds of the glaring center of the sun. However, it is not as alarming as red. It generates a sense of optimism in us as we look upon the color, almost instantly, uplifting the spirits. We associate uninhibited outlook and eagerness to socialize and engage in frolic at the sight of the color.

The color stimulates the brain and makes us more enthusiastic, eager for action and at the same time, remain friendly in temperament. Even if you don’t like eating oranges, you’d love to see a sight of a basket full of freshly plucked oranges. It is the vibrancy of the color that rejuvenate us and fills our body with vitality.