Color Simbolism

Sir Isaac newton used a prism in 1666 and saw the rainbow of the colors that we know as the electromagnetic spectrum. Showing that sunlight is not a color, the espectrum is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,violet; the seven basic colors. Also, in 1940's Max Luscher developed a color psychology. He used 8 colors in his color therapy: red, yellow, green, lue,violet, rown, ray and black. He claimed that he could tell a person's stress level and psychologycal make-up by the order the color was chosen or paired with another color. Later a simple test used only green, yellow, red and blue.



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