Background : I work in an office which is more than 90% men, at least in my division.
Our work involves constant creation of presentations and ‘client ready’ Excel sheets. Presentations by design have colors and almost always follow a color theme. What I don’t understand is why, without fail, the color theme in almost all the presentations is either blue or grey. Apparently, these are the more ‘professional colors’. But the questions is : who labeled them as professional. My hunch is it was a bunch of ‘professional men’, who just wanted to play safe.
I have not understood what they have against all the other colors (and I am not talking on behalf of pink only!). Green is supposed to be the most soothing color to the eyes (it’s the centre of the color spectrum visible to the human eye, and the reason why hospital gowns are green). Reds and other colors are perfectly fine colors too.
We probably spend half our working day with those presentations and excels. Why can we not have a different color in them?
2 comments:
It amuses me to note that the background color of your blog is also the safe 'blue'!
I have always wondered something. It is quite complex. What if different people see different colours differently. I mean what if what i see as Red actually appears black to someone else but he/she has been taught from childhood that it is red. so all of us could be seeing different colours but calling it by same name as we have learned about that from birth.
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