{"id":47,"date":"2011-02-26T23:41:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T07:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-04-05T22:36:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T06:36:58","slug":"47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/2011\/02\/26\/47\/","title":{"rendered":"Colors that speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In line with our current topic of packaging and branding, I thought I would talk about what really matters when making purchase decisions (especially for food products): Colors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/files\/2011\/02\/Brand-Colors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-54\" title=\"Brand Colors\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/files\/2011\/02\/Brand-Colors-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/files\/2011\/02\/Brand-Colors-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/files\/2011\/02\/Brand-Colors.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Seoul International Color Expo 2004, 92.6% said color was the most important factor in their purchasing decisions. Only 5.6% attributed this importance to physical feel from the sense of touch, and 0.9% each from hearing and smelling. In addition, the Institute for Color Research (CCICOLOR) found that people make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment, or  product within 90 seconds of initial viewing and that between 62% and  90% of that assessment is based on color alone. Indeed colors are pretty powerful, I would say. So exactly, how do colors speak to you? For me:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>White<\/em><\/strong> signifies wisdom, purity, cleanliness, powerful yet serene.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Black<\/em> <\/strong>signifies strength, solid, stability, seriousness.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Red<\/em> <\/strong>signifies war, power, energy, excitement, feelings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Green<\/em><\/strong> signifies nature, freshness, money, liveliness.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Blue<\/em><\/strong> signifies calm, trust, dependable, peaceful.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Yellow<\/em><\/strong> signifies happiness, laughter, cheerfulness, freshness.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Grey<\/em><\/strong> signifies business, dullness, seriousness, practical.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an interesting and practical color chart I found. Looks like I was not too far off&#8230; or is it the other way around? They got me figured out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/files\/2011\/02\/Colors.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55\" title=\"Colors\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/files\/2011\/02\/Colors-333x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/files\/2011\/02\/Colors-333x1024.png 333w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/files\/2011\/02\/Colors.png 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In line with our current topic of packaging and branding, I thought I would talk about what really matters when making purchase decisions (especially for food products): Colors. According to the Seoul International Color Expo 2004, 92.6% said color was the most important factor in their purchasing decisions. Only 5.6% attributed this importance to physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lukevu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}