Read Time: 9minDo 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.
Read Time: 4minQuotes 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 […]
Read Time: 2minPart 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 […]
Read Time: < 1minuteDavid 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.
Read Time: 6minAlways 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
Read Time: < 1minuteColor 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.
Read Time: 2minTo 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?
Read Time: 2minGreenhorn, 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.
Read Time: 2minThe word green didn’t take a twisting linguistic road. The English word for green is remarkably close to its original spelling and meaning.
Read Time: 2minThe smart couple that founded this company understand that the use of color, whether as a name, logo, product or packaging, must be done strategically.
Read Time: 2minWhen 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.
Read Time: 3minOriginally published: 2005| Rewritten 06-13-25 – This story has been expanded with new insights about Mount Vernon Green and other colors in the palette, George Washington’s vision, and where you can find these historic paints today,Mount Vernon is high on my fantasy list of dream homes. Not just for its stately architecture or panoramic views […]
