Colour Blog
Welcome to our Blog Page where we have various types of blogs and articles. We will endeavour to keep these as up-to-date as possible – do come back and check for new information.
Colour for Health & Wellbeing
Articles and information on how colour affects us from a health and wellbeing perspective. The articles include how Colour Therapy has adapted over the centuries, what is new with colour – we are lead to believe it is the new ‘food’ of our time. We also include articles on interiors and fashion and how these colours affect our environments and what we want to project about ourselves:
Gold for Healing?
The colour Gold is associated with the sun, its warmth and worth. It stands for vitality and inspiration. In many old cultures Gold was the most precious colour that represented sun gods and the highest points of spiritual development. It increases...
read moreMagenta – Printer Colour Only?
Magical Magenta Magenta is defined as purple mixed with red and is a fairly new colour which came about in the 1890's when it was used in the print sector. In optics, fuchsia and magenta are essentially the same colour. The web colours fuchsia and magenta...
read moreWant a good night’s sleep? Try surrounding yourself with Blue
Feeling blue may not be all bad when it comes to enjoying a good night’s sleep. Those with bedrooms this colour tend to get the best rest – nearly eight hours a night – and wake feeling happy and positive. According to a survey, it is linked to calm, soothing feelings...
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Famous Colour Personalities
From individuals through to families and groups here are a wide range of colour personalities of people we see on TV, in the Political arena and also Royalty. We discuss how they interact or relate based on all their colour personalities. We don’t know them personally but it is fascinating how colour can describe their traits both positive and challenging:
Stephen Hawking off to the stars
Stephen Hawking - 8th January 1942 to 14/3/2018 Stephen's ever brilliant light shone for 76 years instead of the predicted 24 writing a selection of books, articles and thesis's on science and the universe. His soul Purple allowed him to be inspired and...
read moreHome to Knotty Ash Ken Dodd
Ken Dodd - 8th November 1927 to 11/3/2018 At such a ripe old age of 90 and in his own personal Gold year we say goodbye to Ken Dodd. Ken was a Soul Colour Orange which was fairly predictable as his humour was his world. Unconventional and very zany like...
read moreEugiene & Jack
Another Royal wedding during 2018 so plenty to celebrate. Jack and Eugenie have been together for many years now and their colours are interesting together. Jack Brooksbank date of birth is the 3rd May 1986 which makes him a Blue, a cooler colour making...
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PR and Press Releases
Here are the articles from magazines and on-line forums that have been used by the Press for varying different projects. From ‘Blue Monday’ to technical articles you will find all about colour here. For press enquiries please mail alison@thecolourministry.co.uk for more information.
Blue Monday
Blue Monday gives the hue a bad name! Colour therapists say it actually 'soothes the mind', so from Santorini to Capri, these are the richly azure places that should lift your mood Today marks ‘Blue Monday’, which is supposedly the year's most depressing...
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