The human eye can physically perceive millions of colours. But we don’t all recognise these colours in the same way.
Color can communicate a lot of information, but not as clearly as if it were an actual language.
Colors play a vital role in our lives and how we respond to our surroundings. The colors you surround yourself with can influence your perspective and emotions, as well as those around you.
Some people can’t see differences in colours – so called colour blindness – due to a defect or absence of the cells in the retina that are sensitive to high levels of light: the cones. But the distribution and density of these cells also varies across people with “normal vision” causing us all to experience the same colour in slightly different ways.
Besides our individual biological make up, colour perception is less about seeing what is actually out there and more about how our brain interprets colours to create something meaningful. The perception of colour mainly occurs inside our heads and so is subjective – and prone to personal experience.
“We are a new language for everyone, because color is the universal language.” That might be stretching it a bit far, given the same colors can have different connotations in different cultures, but the spirit is close enough.
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