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Colors and words have a lot in common. We all learn how to use words at an early age but unfortunately, few learn how to use color effectively. Unless you spend many hours mixing paints and trying out their various effects and nuances, speaking with colors can be like talking in a foreign language. Most people don't learn the second language. In their color preferences, few ever go beyond primary colors. The following is based on US survey, made by artists Komar and Melamid for http://awp.diaart.org/km/painting.html in 1995.
Colors only work in combinations.
Our mood plays very important role too. Walk in a garden and look around you. Nature doesn't make mistakes with color. No matter how vivid or subtle, they always seem to work together. Why? Because the garden is pleasant.. A "focus group" mockery Komar and Melamed didn't stop with colors. They have sent a long list of questions around the world, then "painted by numbers" the result.
They asked questions like these:
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