Okay, we were in denial about this for many decades. We always presumed blue was our favourite colour. Maybe even black! But it isn't. In recent years we've finally embraced the harsh reality—yellow is our favourite. ๐จ
It lends itself very well to many things. Recently, we picked up a Playdate handheld console. One of the reasons we were drawn to it? That distinctive colour scheme.
Then we see stuff like this on Twitter and we can't resist.
You might notice a theme with our blog—the yellow blob (the Professional Moron) at the top of the screen on the left. Recently, we even changed our blog heading from blue colouring... to yellow! Will this obsession ever end!? Probably not, we're too far gone now.
Our Love for Yellow Knows No Bounds
Okay, so Tuscan sun at the end there is our favourite type of yellow. Dark. As bleak as our morbid souls! We this all dawned on us when we were piecing together our history of lemons feature two years ago.
The colour is between green and orange on the spectrum of light.
We're probably going to do a full history of the colour yellow at some point (check out our detailed look into orange for similar themes). For now, though, we want to explore the PSYCHOLOGY of it all.
As in, what it does to you when you use your eyeballs to behold the colour.
The Psychology Behind Yellow
Colour psychology is a real thing. We all know this. Certain colours represent moods:
- Red: Communism and anger (or anger and communism)
- Blue: Triumphant Conservatism (just ignore the devastation)
- Green: Bogeys
- Pink: Barbie Girl by Aqua
- Orange: Oranges
You get the idea. With yellow, you might associate the colour with the likes of:
- Sunshine
- Laughter
- The Simpsons
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Energy
- Happiness
- Jaundice
- Our blog
- Cheese
- Humour
- Positivity
- Rubber ducks
Plus, puns. The fact you can say "Yellow!" and it sounds like "Hello!".
There's a full website dedicated to this on Colour Psychology: Yellow Symbolism and Meaning. This fabulous website states:
"The vibrant hue of yellow has remarkable effects on the human psyche, eliciting a broad spectrum of emotions and behaviors. Yellow is mentally activating, psychologically stimulating higher cognition, creativity, and feelings of optimism. However, in excess, it can also overstimulate, resulting in anxiety, impulsiveness, and emotional fragility. Yellow sharpens analytic thinking and decision-making by muting subjective emotions, but this lack of empathy can become extreme logic at the expense of compassion.
Cheerful yellow tones uplift moods and self-esteem, but the brightness can be abrasive or convey dishonesty in certain contexts. People tend to extravert more around yellow. Thus, yellow has widespread influence over psychological states, subtlety shifting attitudes, performance, perceptions of self and others, cognition processes, arousal levels, and social tendencies in mostly positive yet occasionally concerning ways. Understanding yellow's variable psychological powers allows us to harness them effectively."
It goes on to state the colour is commonplace with:
- Intellect
- Optimism
- Creativity
- Clarity
- Decision-Making
- Energy
- Anxiety
- Deception
- Logic Over Emotion
Well, dear readers, you've been warned when you next visit this website called Professional Moron and take what we write as sacrosanct.
Yellow Stuff We Like
Now all that new-fangled "psychology" (didn't have none of that in the good old days) is out of the way. Ironically, we hate yellow submarines (death traps).
But we are more receptive to things that aren't yellow submarines.
Online Art and Yellow
We did our recent groovy web comic and art stuff feature. There wasn't too much yellow in that, but we've since spotted some of the artists within that post doing the colour.
And then there's Ryo Takemasa again with his clean designs.
From our Mondo mascots feature, one now stands out. From the start of this feature we have what we think is called Hirokuma. The mascots are designed to represent Japanese locations, in this case Hiroshima.
Whoever is responsible for it does cool stuff like this.
So, yeah, loads of art online for it. Tour through. Enjoy. It's one of the increasingly few benefits of social media. And we suggest you support that side of it, noble cultural enthusiast. ๐
Van Gogh's Use of Yellow in Art
The genius of Van Gogh is drenched in yellow. For his official museum you can find why is yellow so prominent in Van Gogh's work.
"Vincent van Gogh painted what were destined to become his most famous works in sun-drenched Arles: Sunflowers, The Bedroom, The Yellow House and the sweeping landscapes with wheat fields, sowers and reapers under the shimmering sun.
That's what you associate with Van Gogh, what gets etched in your memory – all that yellow, used to portray the southern light and way of life."
There's more pompous pontificating around Van Gogh's use of yellow. One resource we found states:
"Van Gogh's use of yellow is considered to derive from the sun, and appears to be related to an ambivalence to his father, as expressed in sun worship, while the complementary colours red and green were correlated with his bisexuality and castration anxiety."
Or, you know, he was an artist and just through yellow was an effective colour to use.
We highlighted this in our Mozart and scatological humour piece. In modern life, we have this habit of imposing current social mores on the past.
Van Gogh MUST have used yellow due to his mental illness battles or to because his father was a dickhead!
Or, maybe, he just liked the colour and it made him happy. Who knows, eh?
The Playdate
Yeah, we picked this thing up recently and we love it a lot. That yellow is most effective, no?
Lemons
Cool, isn't it?
The Stone Roses and Lemons
Our love for The Stone Roses' eponymous debut album was a call to arms. A demand for a better life. Sadly, they got caught out by capitalism and their ascendancy was ruined.
However, their 1989 debut remains a classic. It highlights throughout the 1968 Parisian student riots. Bye Bye Badman is all about that.
During the riots, students sucked on lemons to stop the effects of CS gas. Handy tip for later life...
Cheese
Cheese is fantastic, just check out the Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling on Cooper's Hill competition for full confirmation on that. Superb!
Away from that, cheese is typically yellow and tastes really nice. No issues there.
Conclusion: Yellow is Better Than You Are!
Now you've been converted, please hit play on the above video and succumb to the yellow. You probably won't regret it! This one is the best colour. Denial is futile.
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