For me black colour is nice. In fact, I mostly prefer darker colours. Even a lot of my clothes are black, because you can wear black with everything, so no problem with choosing clothes. Also you can wear black clothes and darker coloured clothes more often without having to wash them often, so you can often wear your favorite clothes.
In my home, many curtains and furniture have darker colours as well. Dark bordeaux, very dark purple, dark blue, etc. I like those colours. I do have white as well and lighter colours, like yellow green and white curtains and some white furniture. My home has a healthy mix of light and dark colours. It’s nice to have differences. But most of the colours I prefer are darker colours.
Why that seems sad to a lot of people I don’t understand. Dark colours are often considered negative. How come?
Think dark gloomy days. When its cloudy or foggy. Or a fire..thick black smoke...or the dead of the night when it is pitch black. All the connotations have a negative association.
By the way..black is also associated with sexiness..e.g. the sexy black dress!!
Black is sexiness? I’ve heard about red being considered as a sexy colour sometimes in some cultures, there even are cultures who forbid females to wear red, but I’ve never heard about black being a sexy colour. In which culture is that? I’ve always considered black a normal colour.
And about white being sad, as far as I know, in Hindu culture white is often worn during cremation, and Hindu widows probably wear white? But not in Islam as far as I know. White in Islam is even worn during hadj and umrah.
Mostly for one reason or another, black is considered negative and sad. In most parts of the world, people wear it at funerals. Or when you just wear it, people start asking if you’re depressed or something, while you just like it.
I was wondering where that came from.
Googling for the origin of the meaning of colours results in this kind of info, though interesting, it only provides info about the meaning of colours during a certain era, but not where they probably first were given a certain meaning:
and red during that time had an important meaning as well:
And this provides info how black is viewed in our time:
Yet, despite all that info, people do often think it’s a sad and negative colour. And nowhere info about where it all began.
Well, perhaps it’s one of the things we’ll never know, so I should perhaps stop searching that info and do something more useful, like reading my book.
Im pretty sure black is not considered as a colour as it is the absence of colour. I was taught that black and white were tones, or shades, but not actual colours. However, im sure a scientist would be able to give a clearer explanation...perhaps google! :D
Black people often have different shades of brown and dark brown and darker brown, but never really black. Why we call them black people then, I don't know. Even in Pakistan we call people with light brown to dark brown skins, "kalay bandi", while they never really are black.
In my family we have some people with different shades, varying from almost white to very dark brown, but nobody really black, yet some cousins, females and males, who have either light brown or dark brown skin are sometimes called "kala" or "kalee" too.
But I'm not talking about skin colour here, I'm talking about fabrics, clothes and all kinds of things with the colour black. Skin colour is a different topic.
Also you can wear black clothes and darker coloured clothes more often without having to wash them often, so you can often wear your favorite clothes.
