Discover your colour personality
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You’ll be surprised what your colour preferences reveal about you as a person. Colour is an aspect of light, which occurs in wavelengths, and is what your eyes really sense. How your brain thinks about, and interprets light, is where your colour personality comes from. Knowing how you vibe with light can answer what you like about a particular picture, and helps you to choose the ones that speak to you.
Let’s get started…
First, get a clue
Peek into your wardrobe to quickly get an idea of your colour preferences.
How much you have of certain colours indicate your dominant preferences, and how you combine them reveals the deeper way in which you express yourself through colour.
This is because colours can be combined to create impressions of harmony or contrast. In daily life, these translate to pleasant emotional states or an intention to stand out. While this basic principle stands, this is of course an over-simplification as emotions are far more subtle and there are millions of colour variations.
What’s important is that your dominant colour preferences can help to understand your motivations, and how you combine colours layers that insight with your emotional landscape.
This chart shows popular colours and the emotions that they invoke. Choose your dominant colour from it.
Next, link colour to personality traits
Match your dominant colour preference on the map below to understand it in terms of how you think, and the personality traits that emerge from those thoughts.
If your particular dominant colour isn’t on the chart, simply find the primary colour combinations that make it. All colours derive from the primaries of red, yellow and blue. For example, in this chart, green is a secondary colour made by combining blue and yellow. Similarly you can locate your motivations based on a blend of the colours in this chart.
Lastly, dig deeper
Now that you have an idea of your colour personality, use it to understand how it fits into your life. The Luscher Test uses colour choices to determine your personality traits and related emotions. Use it to validate what you’ve already discovered and explore yourself much further through colour.