Why colour matters
If asked, “Why does colour matter?”, the most obvious answer would be, “Because if the world was black and white, it would be a boring place”.
Colour matters for many reasons. Familiarity, is one. We know bananas are yellow, the sky is blue and the grass is green, and if that changed it would throw us. In nature, such changes aren’t likely, but what if overnight someone decided that hot taps should be pink and cold taps should be purple? Or that green no longer meant ‘go’ at tra_c lights?
We know blue is cold and red is hot. No other message is needed; colour gives us all the information we need, which is true of most places in the world. So, in many cases, colour transcends…
