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Collar color is a set of terms denoting groups of working individuals based on the colors of their collars worn at work. These can commonly reflect one's occupation within a broad class, or sometimes gender; [ 1 ] at least in the late 20th and 21st century, these are generally metaphorical and not a description of typical present apparel.
The color has been widely referenced as a characterization, the colour of key plot objects, or as flavor text in many works: Heliotrope was a popular colour reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour.
While violet is the color of humility in the symbolism of the Catholic Church, it has exactly the opposite meaning in general society. A European poll in 2000 showed it was the color most commonly associated with vanity. [32] As a color that rarely exists in nature and so attracts attention, it is seen as a color of individualism and extravagance.
Color matches made in the paint industry are often aimed at achieving a spectral color match rather than just a tristimulus (metameric) color match under a given spectrum of light. A spectral color match attempts to give two colors the same spectral reflectance characteristic, making them a good metameric match with a low degree of metamerism ...
Purple is one of the least used colors in vexillology and heraldry.Currently, the color appears in only five national flags: that of Dominica, Spain, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Mexico, and one co-official national flag, the Wiphala (co-official national flag of Bolivia).
In Jung's analogy, the color violet represents a distinct aspect of the psyche, rather than a combination of other colors or light wavelengths. [19] This color might represent the influence of psychological factors that are not easily explained or understood, such as synchronicities , dreams, and other phenomena that defy rational explanation.
Maroon (US/UK / m ə ˈ r uː n / mə-ROON, [2] Australia / m ə ˈ r oʊ n / mə-ROHN [3]) is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut. [4] " Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown".
Spiral Dynamics describes how value systems and worldviews emerge from the interaction of "life conditions" and the mind's capacities. [8] The emphasis on life conditions as essential to the progression through value systems is unusual among similar theories, and leads to the view that no level is inherently positive or negative, but rather is a response to the local environment, social ...