Get ready to drench into the world of colours as its 22nd of October — National Colours Day. Colours do not belong to just artists, they are an inseparable part of each one of our lives.
Think about your surroundings and you will find colours everywhere around:
- They say we eat from our eyes first, then with the mouth; well said! Foods are surely a great example of brilliant colours.
- What we wear — various dresses — They all are made attractive and beautiful with right colour-combinations.
- Even the walls of the room seem so you if their paint is being done as per your taste.
However, if you want to identify the most beautiful colours in the world, explore the nature. Have you ever pondered upon the beauty of the colourful flowers, deep sea, wide sky, landscapes, canvas while sunset or sunrise, and so on? What enhances their beauty is — colours.
National Colours Day gives us an opportunity to revive our definition of beauty, explore it, and find it. The day makes observations make us observe the real hero that enhances the appearances. It allows us to open up our hearts for appreciating the colours around us.
"COLORS...Influence the mood, inspire the soul, detail the nature, and play power in every role!"
“Beauty is an understated invitation to rejoice the bash of colours.”
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Date of National Color Day Observance
October 22.
History of National Color Day
Newton’s Ultimate Discovery: Amazing Colour Wheel
Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton was the first one to discover the relation between the spectrum of light and colour impact during 1700.
The Colour Theory
In 1810, Johan Wolfgang von Goeth, a brilliant artist unveiled how colours put a great impact on the psychological aspects. His findings gave strong ground and recognition to the colour theory.
Colorimeter: How Humans Perceive Colours
Who would have thought that we will have the technology for finding the measurement of the wavelengths that a particle absorbs?!
Thanks to Jules Duboscq, a renowned French photographer who is the man behind the invention of colorimeter. This miracle happened in 1870.
Photometer to Know Colour Value
Do you know that an object colour value can also be measured? This colour value is technically known as luminance.
The credit for inventing the device to measure luminance goes to Alfred Munsell. The tool is known as photo meter who came into spotlight in 1898.
National Color Day Celebration Ideas
Admire a Garden
Gardens are the window to a different side of nature. They allow us to talk to the silence and to peek at the mysterious side of the elements of nature.
They help relaxing our breaths so that we can focus on the real pleasures of the life.
Gaze at the Natural Canvas
Try to remember when last you had guest stars and the moon. Probe— how many days have left when last you had smelt a flower and felt the joy of it.
Witnessing the sunset or sunrise also fills one with a pool of blissful feelings.
Asked to yourself that are you enjoying this treasure of nature to the fullest!
If not, it’s never too late.
Draw out Your Imaginations
Almost everyone of us has loved our drawing class the most in the childhood. They used to be most exciting and fun.
How about reliving those moments again on this National Colour Day?!
Doesn’t matter if you come up with the same scenery that you used to draw in your childhood with mountains, river, beaming sun, and a hut and that around.
The idea is to cherish those lovely moments back again and stuffing lightness into the surrounding.
Join a Kid
Have you forgotten those old is skills? Join a school kid into his drawing sessions and make your day along with the little pal.
And if you remember, then too, join those little hands to make them learn something new from your memory book.
Enjoy the Stress-busting Side of Colors
There is a famous saying in Hindi for spoiling the efforts which is addressed with the phrase — “pouring water on work done”.The same way one can pour colours on the stress as well.
When it comes to colours, the first image that pops up into our mind is — he can was filled with painting colours. Drawing, arts and crafts,
Arts and crafts, drawings, paintings, and other pieces that revolve around brush and colours have tremendous benefits.
Painting or indulging into colours work like a bridge between our body and mind. It’s a great medium to connect with our inner self. It helps one to untangle the thoughts’ cluster and eventually plays a key role in de-stressing.
Try New Color-Combinations
Colours are not like your favourite jeans that no matter what you are going to pick your favourite jeans only because of some unknown reasons.
When it’s about trying out new colours, you can give them an opportunity through your dress, shoes, accessories, paper pins on the desk, or in any other form.
Go Out of the Box
The most common idea that comes into mind to celebrate the National Colour Day is wearing your favourite coloured dress.
How about going out of the box and trying out a colour or colour-combination that you always tend escape from?
If not dress, you can also try a weird coloured socks, scarf, or tie too.
Get Educated
Do you know that if we mix green and red colours, they come up with the yellow shade. And if a yellow shade is merged with magenta, it gives red.
If teamed up, colours work wonders. When they are mixed and merged, this action makes a new shade to pop up.
This National Colour Day, let your hands absorb some colours and witness the magic.
Pay Tribute to Isaac Newton
Colours are everywhere yet their presence seems quite mysterious.
What a brainy brain Sir Isaac Newton had. He experimented with sunlight and indirectly also contributed to the colour theory that we have now.
His experiment with a prism and findings on how white light is separated into colours through a prism were a game-changer.
Let’s pay tribute to him and his efforts by being a little curious and giving wings to our experiments and imaginations.
Why is National Color Day Celebrated?
It’s an Opportunity to Rekindle Love
Ask to yourself that do you really appreciate colours and recognise their importance in a way they deserve?
If not, this is the day to rekindle your love for colours. It’s a free treat to eyes and balm to mind and the soul.
This Colour-Gala is so Peppy!
If you want to appreciate or adore colours, there can be no better option than exploring the nature.
You pick mountains, natural jewels, sea, sky, flowers, or butterflies, the beautiful shades make you wonder on the artistic side of the works by the Almighty God.
The moment you lift up your eyes, you will find many colours to soothe your eyes and change your mind.
Enjoy them as a feast of colours and celebrate this unique observation of National Colour Day.
To Realise Colours’ Due Recognition
While witnessing the growth in our brain, body, and intellect, we often ignore certain developments.
We develop our taste and find our favourite dish. We develop new skills and take significant education to choose our career of interest. We encounter with our likes and dislikes, understanding our own behaviour, personality, and character; it gives us clarity on whom to choose as friends and with whom maintain a distance.
All these processes of growth and development involve a memorable journey and unforgettable memories associated with them.
But the story of our relationship with colours remains unrecognised, untold, unrealised, and indeed underestimated. The omnipresence of colours around us, their importance, and contribution to our lives do not get their due recognition.
Thanks to National Colour Day for throwing light on this aspect and reviving our relationship with the colours that surround us.
Significance of National Color Day
They are Powerful
Many of us remain very particular about the colours of our gadgets, colour-combinations of curtains and cushions, the association of colours with personality, fate, and culture, and so on.
Where a right colour can make one look chic and classy, it is capable of ruining a photograph as well.
Have you ever thought— “why”?
Colours put a great impact on our mood and mind. They can widen our attention span and also, can make us reluctant on persuasion. They can indeed change our state of mind.
They can influence someone and can also make someone getting influenced by you.
They carry an aura which cannot only just benefit but also can make a difference. Saying them ‘useful’ will not be enough; they are indeed ‘powerful’.
Their qualities and impact make them worthy of paying a heed and celebrating on a special day dedicated to them and their presence in our lives.
Interesting Facts and Figures about National Color Day
Popular Colour Codes
Do you know that colours can trigger a different types of feelings?
Where green colour can gift your mind the calmness, gazing at yellow can cause panic and nausea.
Do you know why the colour of our blood is red; traffic light to indicate a ‘stop’ is also red?
It is so because red is a colour with high intensity that alarms you well.
The opposite applies on the green colour that gives a sign of going on.
White is the colour that is associated with peace.
Purple is often linked with authority.
Every Colour Speaks about Its Uniqueness
Sometimes, colour codes don’t apply to everyone in common when it comes to a specific person about a particular shade.
In certain cases, colours are more connected with the personal experiences and events.
Some might like the red colour only because It belongs to their memories of first date.
A person might find yellow his favourite colour just because when he had seen his son for the first time, he was trapped in a yellow colored covering.
Some colours become a triggering ones just because of their presence during a unique and unforgettable moment that matters in your life a lot.
World’s Most Popular Colour
This award goes to “blue”. As per a study, this warmest colour won with a fan base of 40% who picked blue as they are favourite colour.
World’s Most Unpopular Colour
It’s yellow. Surprisingly, when it was survey it, yellow found only 5% of votes in its kitty.
Colour with Longest Wavelength
It’s red colour that has the longest wavelength.
It is also the first colour that can be seen by an infant.
Most Soothing Colour to De-stress
Because of calming effect of pink colour, it helps in reducing a stress and relieving anxiety. It’s palliative qualities make it effective in the hours of mental tension.
Bulls Get Angry on Red; Really?
The red colours handkerchiefThe moment we think of a red coloured handkerchief, a bull automatically comes into the picture, showing its horns with raging anger.
But do you know that a bull is not even able to recognise this ‘red’ colour?
Then what triggers its anger? Well, the credit goes to the movement of muleta.
Advertising Industry Reaping Great Benefits
Experts of advertising industry pay great attention on the colour theories.
When it comes to conceptualising and designing any kind of brand material, colours remain the foremost concern.
Specialists know how colours remain in our subconscious minds when it comes to visiting a place, overseeing a logo, and preserving memories of an experience.
Why We See Colours Differently?This magic happens inside our eyes because of two types of cells known as cones and rods. They hold accountability for making us see the colours differently.
Other than our absorption quality for the colours, different wavelengths of colours also determine what we see. To your surprise — our memory is the basis of our interpretation of 90% of the colours.
