I'm using coral red with dark blue for my design agency. The coral red adds something playful and creative, the blue adds trust and a more "bussiness-y" kind of feel. Great video once again!
Loved the video and the new set. Please do more like this. One thing I don't think I hear anyone talk about when discussing colour psychology, is there a difference in meaning between a light colour or dark colour? For example dark blue vs light bue are they equal on the psychology side of things?
Loved the video thx 👍 In case the primary color is black... Can we consider white the complementary ? What about neutrals, as the usual colors picked for neutrals are the main/secondary colors already ?
In Norway we have a bank that's called Sparebank 1. They have a color choise that makes me not trust them. They have a red circle with the number 1 inside of it, then often blue surrounding the red circle. This makes me just think of a political party in Norway called the Progress Party, which is a right-wing party with a lot of prejudice towards immigrants and does poorly on protecting human rights and justice. Their party has a logo that is a red apple with the letters FRP inside of it. It also tends to use blue along side this red apple. So when I see the logo of Sparebank 1, I think of this political party, which is in this case not a good thing.
I liked the video but one thing, Apple’s logo is greyish more like white not black. The color black works because it’s the color that works with the BG which in this case is white so they choose a black color logo against the white background it’s not that the brand color is black.
Strange that you kept saying Apple's colour is black.. I always thought about them as the white... Even the stickers that come in their boxes are the white logo.. great video as always.
Will! You make some great videos for upcoming designers, and professionals too..GREAT VIDEOS...yet in this one, you're unfortunately doing what a lot of people do and mixing colour psychology with colour symbolism. Your vids are better than a lot out there, so wanted to point this out so you don't fall into the trap like a lot of people on social media. (Just in case anyone reading this doesn't know, colour theory includes, colour psychology AND colour symbolism (and additionaly colour personal association).) :)
I don't know what the blue meant untill am bombarded by people saying it's open and blah blah. This is how they give meaning to the colour. So stupid. Its like there is some kind organization going around giving colours a meaning which they want you to believe.
You're a great designer and a great teacher, but you're a bit off on the 'color psychology' part. Simply because not everyone acts or feels the same about certain colours. Some people see red and think 'danger' and others would say 'love'. If you say i choose this colour because it makes people feel X or Z, you are allready talking nonsense. Some people hate purple, others love it. But a person that hates purple, could still buy something from a brand that uses purple and don't even care. The reason people can see colours, is because it helped us evolutionary to recognise things faster. Blue skies, red fruit, yellow flowers etc, helped people survice and thrive. Red is a signal colour for us, because red fruit means life, but red blood could mean death. Therefore, without context, a certain colour could mean anything and it depends on the mood, place and environment how we feel about it. In this day and age, colours are so omnipresent, that we hardly notice them that much at all, let alone have a billboard influence our mood just by the color the brand has. It only helps us recognise the sender of the message easier. So, therefore the most important aspect in choosing colour is how it adds to the distinctiveness of a brand. Especially if you are a challenger brand and you want to set it apart from its competitors. For example, Red Bull has blue, silver and red in its branding, but Monster Energy chose green and black, to really stand apart from their biggest competitor. Even tough they are aiming for the same audience and even use the same 'extreme sports' marketing strategy. If colour psychology would play a huge role, it would be the most important factor for either ones succes. Also, green would hardly be a colour associated with extreme energy or sugared soda drinks. Its purely a choice of getting recognised as a brand. That's why even a colour like magenta or pink can be used for a toy company, an ice cream company, bakery, bank or a telecom provider. Its just how it helps them stand out from the other brands in their category. And as an extra important aspect, it can help protect the brands trademark in legal matters. So ditch the 'colour psychology' part, because its not helpful and just leads to more generic branding for a category. Eco=green, health=blue etc.
Color Psychology always seems a bit pseudoscience-y to me. I wonder if there’s actual research behind it. If anything, the color psychology is very culturally influenced and can’t be applied cross-cultural.
I hear you...Yet colour psychology (true colour psychology), is a real thing...unfortunately the terms colour psychology and colour symbolism have got interchanged so much over social media, they're getting confused. What you're hinting at is colour symbolism, and you're 100% correct in that they're heavily culturally influenced; add in to that any personal association, and the meanings become less and less meaningful. (Kandinsky's colour symblism is heavily based on western cultures, which is what a lot of people fall back on.) Colour psychology on the other hand speaks to how different colour harmonies affect the different personality types, and that's irrespective of culture, gender etc; it's purely down to the psychological personality type, and how brightness and saturation of hues, and pairing them together, affect people differently. Will's mentioned he might do a video on this....so watch this space :) ....no pressure Will 😂😉
I disagree that we should use color psychology as the main factor when selecting color. I think it’s a very tiny part of the decision. You need to take into account competitors, differentiation, where the brand is going to be applied, target audience, cultural significance and industry paradigms. You don’t see passion or excitement when you see the CNN logo. The brand actually stands for trust. Hence it’s slogan: “The most trusted name in news” (which is very deteriorated by the way). So by this logic, CNN should have chose blue if they want to personify trust. There’s a lot more to think about here. Just my opinion
You're a great designer and a great teacher, but you're a bit off on the 'color psychology' part. Simply because not everyone acts or feels the same about certain colours. Some people see red and think 'danger' and others would say 'love'. If you say i choose this colour because it makes people feel X or Z, you are allready talking nonsense. Some people hate purple, others love it. But a person that hates purple, could still buy something from a brand that uses purple and don't even care. The reason people can see colours, is because it helped us evolutionary to recognise things faster. Blue skies, red fruit, yellow flowers etc, helped people survice and thrive. Red is a signal colour for us, because red fruit means life, but red blood could mean death. Therefore, without context, a certain colour could mean anything and it depends on the mood, place and environment how we feel about it. In this day and age, colours are so omnipresent, that we hardly notice them that much at all, let alone have a billboard influence our mood just by the color the brand has. It only helps us recognise the sender of the message easier. So, therefore the most important aspect in choosing colour is how it adds to the distinctiveness of a brand. Especially if you are a challenger brand and you want to set it apart from its competitors. For example, Red Bull has blue, silver and red in its branding, but Monster Energy chose green and black, to really stand apart from their biggest competitor. Even tough they are aiming for the same audience and even use the same 'extreme sports' marketing strategy. If colour psychology would play a huge role, it would be the most important factor for either ones succes. Also, green would hardly be a colour associated with extreme energy or sugared soda drinks. Its purely a choice of getting recognised as a brand. That's why even a colour like magenta or pink can be used for a toy company, an ice cream company, bakery, bank or a telecom provider. Its just how it helps them stand out from the other brands in their category. And as an extra important aspect, it can help protect the brands trademark in legal matters. So ditch the 'colour psychology' part, because its not helpful and just leads to more generic branding for a category. Eco=green, health=blue etc.
Hope you guys enjoy the video!
What colors would you use in your personal logo / branding? 🤔
Love the clean intro!
I'm using coral red with dark blue for my design agency. The coral red adds something playful and creative, the blue adds trust and a more "bussiness-y" kind of feel. Great video once again!
RGB, B&W
I’ve been burnt out on design lately, but this simple refresher made me feel both knowledgeable and more inspired! Thank you.
This is awesome, I’m in the process of a rebrand and videos like this are so helpful
Video came in a clutch moment, almost finished a logo project for a client and where in the colour choice phase. Thanks Will
Love the happy uplifting energetic orange behind you❣️
Love the new set! The graphics shown on screen also add a lot!
It was definitiely a team activity assembling all that flat pack furniture haha. I will pass that positive feedback to PJ our editor.
@@willpatersondesign And Jimmy Jim Jim (real name). He did the fancy wavy colour background that looks very pretty.
i love this for sure ...am a graphics designer and facing problem when choosing colors but now i will do it great 👍 THANKS 😊
You're welcome 😊
checking through ur vids and get much improvement now...
where can i send some of my logos and see if i get improvement
i would like to see you creating a podcast full speaking about graphic design. A must to do list :)
I kid you not, I needed this yesterday for my graphics GCSE. This video is a day late but still very informative.
@@Believerin3 GCSE is the exams that decide what A-levels you do (AP in America) that we do in England.
Loved the video and the new set. Please do more like this.
One thing I don't think I hear anyone talk about when discussing colour psychology, is there a difference in meaning between a light colour or dark colour? For example dark blue vs light bue are they equal on the psychology side of things?
This video is so helpful and educational, thank you so much!
oooh it was super cool to see one of my design assets used in the wild. nice thumbnail. awesome video as well
Loved the video thx 👍
In case the primary color is black... Can we consider white the complementary ? What about neutrals, as the usual colors picked for neutrals are the main/secondary colors already ?
nice content will 🧡🧡
Great video as always :D
Glad you enjoyed! :D
Thanks bud! 🍁
Super helpful, loved the information. Thank you!
Yeah my perspective is only psychological about colors.
Thank you
every time I see you I want to design something.
In Norway we have a bank that's called Sparebank 1. They have a color choise that makes me not trust them. They have a red circle with the number 1 inside of it, then often blue surrounding the red circle. This makes me just think of a political party in Norway called the Progress Party, which is a right-wing party with a lot of prejudice towards immigrants and does poorly on protecting human rights and justice. Their party has a logo that is a red apple with the letters FRP inside of it. It also tends to use blue along side this red apple. So when I see the logo of Sparebank 1, I think of this political party, which is in this case not a good thing.
I liked the video but one thing, Apple’s logo is greyish more like white not black. The color black works because it’s the color that works with the BG which in this case is white so they choose a black color logo against the white background it’s not that the brand color is black.
bring back Macintosh colours!
Interesting that you have a red coca cola logo here, because I mostly ever see the logo white....... on a red background.
Awesome Content.. Thank You ❤
Strange that you kept saying Apple's colour is black.. I always thought about them as the white... Even the stickers that come in their boxes are the white logo.. great video as always.
wow🤩
I wish the Mac shared the same tutorials as the iPad for vectornator
What app did you use for getting the hue value?
Will! You make some great videos for upcoming designers, and professionals too..GREAT VIDEOS...yet in this one, you're unfortunately doing what a lot of people do and mixing colour psychology with colour symbolism.
Your vids are better than a lot out there, so wanted to point this out so you don't fall into the trap like a lot of people on social media.
(Just in case anyone reading this doesn't know, colour theory includes, colour psychology AND colour symbolism (and additionaly colour personal association).)
:)
Thanks for clearing it up! I’ve been using both terms interchangeably, I might also make a video about the mistakes on this. ❤️❤️❤️
@@willpatersondesign 🙌
Any suggestion on a good Vectornator alternative Android app? Thank you! 😊 Love all of your vids Will!
Your videos are the best ✅👍
Bro what color number I can choose for ... Aqua clean brand name ... Deal in cleaning chemicals like dishwash .. laundry powder etc.
Omg my brain hurts, trying to design a logo for my charity shop 🤞🏽 hoping this is going to help me 😁
orange is the best color ever and you can't change my mind.
Is vectornator as good as the iPad versions of affinity designer and Adobe illustrator
Is that y u have a blue light ...hmmm makes sense
First..!! Wait.. no I'm not
"AA LARGE, AAA LARGE, AA NORMAL, AAA NORMAL" meaning.
Hey! What iPad app were you using at 2:55?
Im wondering about that tooo
Please next video add subtitle indonesia. Thankyou
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I don't know what the blue meant untill am bombarded by people saying it's open and blah blah. This is how they give meaning to the colour. So stupid. Its like there is some kind organization going around giving colours a meaning which they want you to believe.
You spelled color the right way! Lol
I must say! The comment feed in filled with your lovely comments :) Thanks for watching all the videos. I really appreciate it.
@@willpatersondesign I'm glad you noticed and appreciate them Will! I really appreciate you and your work.
@@ChaossX77 That makes more happy than you could ever imagine. :)
Why are we using the American spelling of colour?
Most of the audience is American :)
@@willpatersondesign Fair enough!
You're a great designer and a great teacher, but you're a bit off on the 'color psychology' part. Simply because not everyone acts or feels the same about certain colours. Some people see red and think 'danger' and others would say 'love'. If you say i choose this colour because it makes people feel X or Z, you are allready talking nonsense. Some people hate purple, others love it. But a person that hates purple, could still buy something from a brand that uses purple and don't even care. The reason people can see colours, is because it helped us evolutionary to recognise things faster. Blue skies, red fruit, yellow flowers etc, helped people survice and thrive. Red is a signal colour for us, because red fruit means life, but red blood could mean death. Therefore, without context, a certain colour could mean anything and it depends on the mood, place and environment how we feel about it. In this day and age, colours are so omnipresent, that we hardly notice them that much at all, let alone have a billboard influence our mood just by the color the brand has. It only helps us recognise the sender of the message easier. So, therefore the most important aspect in choosing colour is how it adds to the distinctiveness of a brand. Especially if you are a challenger brand and you want to set it apart from its competitors. For example, Red Bull has blue, silver and red in its branding, but Monster Energy chose green and black, to really stand apart from their biggest competitor. Even tough they are aiming for the same audience and even use the same 'extreme sports' marketing strategy. If colour psychology would play a huge role, it would be the most important factor for either ones succes. Also, green would hardly be a colour associated with extreme energy or sugared soda drinks. Its purely a choice of getting recognised as a brand. That's why even a colour like magenta or pink can be used for a toy company, an ice cream company, bakery, bank or a telecom provider. Its just how it helps them stand out from the other brands in their category. And as an extra important aspect, it can help protect the brands trademark in legal matters. So ditch the 'colour psychology' part, because its not helpful and just leads to more generic branding for a category. Eco=green, health=blue etc.
Color Psychology always seems a bit pseudoscience-y to me.
I wonder if there’s actual research behind it.
If anything, the color psychology is very culturally influenced and can’t be applied cross-cultural.
I agree, my color theory class seemed totally bs to me in college at times
I hear you...Yet colour psychology (true colour psychology), is a real thing...unfortunately the terms colour psychology and colour symbolism have got interchanged so much over social media, they're getting confused. What you're hinting at is colour symbolism, and you're 100% correct in that they're heavily culturally influenced; add in to that any personal association, and the meanings become less and less meaningful. (Kandinsky's colour symblism is heavily based on western cultures, which is what a lot of people fall back on.)
Colour psychology on the other hand speaks to how different colour harmonies affect the different personality types, and that's irrespective of culture, gender etc; it's purely down to the psychological personality type, and how brightness and saturation of hues, and pairing them together, affect people differently.
Will's mentioned he might do a video on this....so watch this space :) ....no pressure Will 😂😉
But no one knows the proper meaning if we create with this color psychology 😅
I disagree that we should use color psychology as the main factor when selecting color. I think it’s a very tiny part of the decision. You need to take into account competitors, differentiation, where the brand is going to be applied, target audience, cultural significance and industry paradigms. You don’t see passion or excitement when you see the CNN logo. The brand actually stands for trust. Hence it’s slogan: “The most trusted name in news” (which is very deteriorated by the way). So by this logic, CNN should have chose blue if they want to personify trust. There’s a lot more to think about here. Just my opinion
Love the video and the new set but the new background color is really harsh imo.
You're a great designer and a great teacher, but you're a bit off on the 'color psychology' part. Simply because not everyone acts or feels the same about certain colours. Some people see red and think 'danger' and others would say 'love'. If you say i choose this colour because it makes people feel X or Z, you are allready talking nonsense. Some people hate purple, others love it. But a person that hates purple, could still buy something from a brand that uses purple and don't even care. The reason people can see colours, is because it helped us evolutionary to recognise things faster. Blue skies, red fruit, yellow flowers etc, helped people survice and thrive. Red is a signal colour for us, because red fruit means life, but red blood could mean death. Therefore, without context, a certain colour could mean anything and it depends on the mood, place and environment how we feel about it. In this day and age, colours are so omnipresent, that we hardly notice them that much at all, let alone have a billboard influence our mood just by the color the brand has. It only helps us recognise the sender of the message easier. So, therefore the most important aspect in choosing colour is how it adds to the distinctiveness of a brand. Especially if you are a challenger brand and you want to set it apart from its competitors. For example, Red Bull has blue, silver and red in its branding, but Monster Energy chose green and black, to really stand apart from their biggest competitor. Even tough they are aiming for the same audience and even use the same 'extreme sports' marketing strategy. If colour psychology would play a huge role, it would be the most important factor for either ones succes. Also, green would hardly be a colour associated with extreme energy or sugared soda drinks. Its purely a choice of getting recognised as a brand. That's why even a colour like magenta or pink can be used for a toy company, an ice cream company, bakery, bank or a telecom provider. Its just how it helps them stand out from the other brands in their category. And as an extra important aspect, it can help protect the brands trademark in legal matters. So ditch the 'colour psychology' part, because its not helpful and just leads to more generic branding for a category. Eco=green, health=blue etc.
This comment needs to be read by everyone! Nice one dude :)