Colors

Friday, October 10, 2008

I am a fan of dark colors, and am not a fan of light colors except for the color white. I have mainly two theories on why I prefer dark colors over light colors. Those theories are heat and inconspicuousness.

I have always been a fan of heat. I like warm weather, and have a dislike for cold weather. In my Geography class I learned that darker colors absorb more insolation from the sun than do lighter colors. I believe this is a reason that I like darker colors so much, since they draw heat. I am a person that can enjoy an 80-95 degree day. I am even known to wear extra clothes on these days. I will wear a shirt over a white t-shirt and a pair of jeans on a 90 degree day. People ask me “Aren’t you hot?”, and I say “Yeah, and I’m enjoying it.” I am more prone to wear darker colors because they attract more heat. Lighter colors reflect significantly more insolation than they absorb, causing less heat to be produced.

If you read my previous posts you would know that I was a very shy person. I didn’t like to be noticed much so I was more prone to stay inconspicuous. It’s a fact that lighter colors attract more attention than darker ones. One will notice a person walking down the street in a bright orange shirt faster than they would notice a person wearing a dark orange shirt. So in order to stay out of the limelight I don’t wear the limelight colors, I wear the conservative colors. I don’t like to be an attention getter.

My two favorite dark colors are green and burgundy. The reason I like green so much is because it is the color of nature, and I have always liked nature for some reason. It also represents wealth to me, since it is the color of the American dollar, a dollar that many people love. Anything that is green I pretty much like: Green lima beans, garden peas, lemon lime Kool-Aid, Sprite, Publix Supermarket, Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, trees & grass, green frosting on cake, etc.

The reason I like burgundy so much is because I’ve always compared burgundy to high-status. I feel like a Big Dog when I wear it, like I cannot be touched. I pretty much feel this way about it since it was considered a royal color in old Europe, since it is close to purple. Only the bourgeois were known to wear the colors of burgundy, purple, violet, or anything in between back in the days of monarchs. Burgundy is a recent favorite color of mine, and I’m probably going to wear it for a long time.