Where do we find the meaning of pink? Do we capture the curve of a rose in bloom? Are we seeking out the flush of healthy cheeks on a chilly day? Is the meaning found in the tightly swaddled form of a newborn baby girl? Pink delights us all – man, woman, child, and adult.

Meaning Of Pink: Explained

The color of frivolity lives between red and white. Pink takes all the passion and energy of red and tempers it with the purity of white, leaving us with the color of tenderness and affection.

Physical Effects

Pink has been definitively linked to toning down aggression, and its use in holding cells for violent criminals has been quite effective. Some sports teams have even painted opposing teams locker rooms pink in an attempt to reduce aggression. Pink is such an effective mood regulator that too much of it can by physically draining. Dark pinks have effects similar to red–heightened emotions, while pale pinks are more soothing.

Symbolism And Meaning Of Pink

Pink symbolizes youth, good health, and playfulness. It’s the flush of first love and stands for nurturing femininity. It’s used as the symbolic color of the movement to support breast cancer research, and we think of pink as an innocent, cheerful color.

Positive Associations

We associate pink with the innocence of childhood and unabashed play. If giggles had a color, it would be pink, and pink used in design reveals a willingness to embrace wonder and creativity. Pink can soften formal design, and its influence can lighten up dark, stodgy colors.

Negative Associations

Pink can be associated with passivity, and an unwillingness to take matters seriously. We think of pink as the color of inexperience and associate it with weakness and inhibitions. Pink can also be associated with timidity or a tendency to be overly emotional.

Pink Color Morsels

The pink fairy armadillo lives in Argentina and is the smallest of all the armadillos. They weigh less than a pound and forage for ants, worms, and other insects. Pink fairy armadillos live underground and emerge to find food at night.

The little finger is often referred to as the "pinky," and the origin goes back to an obsolete meaning of "pink" to refer to something small.

Before the famous band we know as Pink Floyd went by that name, they were called The Pink Floyd Sound. The also went by earlier names The Tea Set and Abdabs. Roughly 1 in 12 people own a copy of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album from 1973.

Dubble Bubble bubblegum was created in 1969, and got its pink color because that was the only color dye its creator, Walter Donger, had on hand.The record for the largest bubble ever blown with bubblegum is held by Susan Montgomery Williams who blew a 26-inch bubble in 1996.

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Pink Words, Phrases And Idioms

Examples of how the meaning of pink colors our language:

• Tickled pink: to be happy
• In the pink: in good health -- this phrase hasn't always had this meaning [See The Meaning of In the Pink]
• Pinking shears: scissors with serrated blades
• Pink elephant: term to describe hallucinations during intoxication
• Pinkie finger: the smallest finger on the human hand
• Pink slip: notice that employment is ending
• Pink collar: refers to a particular class of jobs once only filled by women

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Pink As A Signature Color

A signature color is different than a favorite color although for some people they many be one and the same. It is all in how you express yourself with a color and how consistently you wear it or surround yourself with the color that makes it your signature shade.

• Mamie Eisenhower - She wore a pink gown covered with 2,000 pink rhinestones to Ike’s first inauguration, and the shade of her dresses and accessories came to be known as “First Lady Pink” or “Mamie Pink.” Pink was also her preferred hue for entertaining and decorating. As a popular first lady American's quickly picked up on her palette, which was “right in line with the exuberance of the time,” says Pam Kueber, founder of Save the Pink Bathrooms. Pink existed before Mamie, of course, but “the penchant for pink in the home — especially bathroom fixtures and tiles, but also kitchen appliances and then cabinets — was at a frenzy from about 1954 through to 1960 or so.”
• Pink  - Called the most trailblazing artist of her generation, singer-songwriter, Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979), is known professionally as Pink. A name linked to the color of sweetness and innocence had a rather raunchy beginning - Pink Reveals Story Behind Stage Name.

Companies & Brands Identified by Pink

Cities With Color Names: Pink

How Pink Hill, NC got its name
The original town settler, Anthony Davis, owned a large farm on a hill in southern Lenoir County. Every spring, fields of pink flowers would bloom in the fields as far as the eye could see. Davis would name the community Pink Hill.

Glen Rose, Texas
Pink Hill, North Carolina
Rose City , Michigan
Rose Hill, Kansas
Rose Hill, Virginia

Song that Feature the Color Pink

• Mr. Pink Eyes by The Cure on the Lovecats single
• Pink by Aerosmith
• Pink & Blue by OutKast on The Love Below
• Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen
• Pink Cashmere by Prince on The Hits 1
• A Pink Dream by The Cure on the Mint Car single
• Pink Elephant by Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
• Pink Houses by John Cougar Mellencamp
• Pink Maggit by Deftones
• Pink Panther Theme by Henry Mancini

Color And Our Sense Of Smell: Pink

Color Taste Connection: Pink

There are five basic groups of taste, which send signals to our brain to interpret flavor. However, we also send signals with our eyes before we take a bite and give our taste buds a chance to process the flavor. The color can pre-determine how we perceive the taste and flavor of what we eat.

• Pastries taste better when they come out of pink boxes or served on pink plates.
• Pink makes us crave sugar and may be why cotton candy is pink. Cotton candy, was invented in 1897 by candy makers William Morrison and John C. Wharton from Nashville, Tennessee, USA. They invented a device that heated sugar in a spinning bowl to form a treat that they originally called “Fairy Floss.” 

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