Read Time: 9 min Do you think that a color trend lasts about a year? It isn’t true. The Color of the Year 2020 has staying power. Here’s what you need to know about these six takes on color trends.
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Read Time: 4 min Quotes About Color Green My father pointed to the moon and asked me what color it was. I couldn’t tell. So he told me to look at the horizon and then glance back quickly at the moon. Then I saw it: it was pale green. Alden Baker, American painter, b. 1928 Green is the prime color […]
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Read Time: 2 min Part topiary, part trellis, part English garden, I think these are the best green shutters ever. Whoever added them to this charming home in Provincetown, MA is brilliant.The vines are well established and upon closer inspection I could see the original once painted green shutters beneath the ivy.Each plant was placed with the end design […]
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Read Time: 4 min I love George and Martha Washington’s home and it is on my fantasy list of places to live. In addition to the gorgeous architecture, spectacular water view, and beautiful grounds, this home may have been one of the first to use color based on affect on us physically and emotionally. Our first President chose to […]
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Read Time: < 1 minute David Wild may have said it best, “Greenmail is, quite logically, blackmail of a different color” and it is how a company in a hostile takeover might see it.
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Read Time: 5 min Pure and pretty, April birthstone color, Peridot is a perpetual pleaser.
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Read Time: 6 min Always green, vibrant, and full of life, the May birthstone color, Emerald, in all of its brilliance is a color only Mother Earth could have created and carat for carat are more valuable than diamonds
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Read Time: < 1 minute Do you know what this traffic signal inspired idiom means?
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Read Time: < 1 minute Color plays a major role in brand identity and smart companies use color wisely to stand out. The H&R Block green brand color is a great example.
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Read Time: 2 min To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day traditions Chicago turns the river green and many pubs turn their beer green but did you know that in both cases to create the color of Ireland (from where it got its name “The Emerald Isle.”) the dye isn’t green?
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Read Time: 2 min Greenhorn, a popular term in the Old West, originally meant new. Today it has a broader meaning and is often considered to be a derogatory term.
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Read Time: 2 min The word green didn’t take a twisting linguistic road. The English word for green is remarkably close to its original spelling and meaning.
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Read Time: 2 min The smart couple that founded this company understand that the use of color, whether as a name, logo, product or packaging, must be done strategically.
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Read Time: 2 min When these products hit the market being green was not only easy, but very smart and green quickly become the color of success for these two companies.
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