I would imagine the colour choices a paediatrician might chose for their offices would be rather different to the colour choice of their home, unless they have a thing for primary colours and Disney murals.
Hospitals make much of soothing, calming, light, bright colours- yet they all seem to end up magnolia and institution green.
irishgirl, which color is “magnolia”? Magnolias come in different colors. I looked in the dictionary but all it said was “large showy white, pink, purple, or yellow flowers.”
Mark me down for Cyan. Magenta. Yellow, and Black. But you already knew that.
Doh! of course that’d be Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK.
Magnolia is that sort of pale pinky-yellow cream that is used as a default wall colour almost everywhere in Ireland, Europe and the UK- I imagine the USA has something similar with a different name.
You know, the colour landlords paint apartments, the colour of shop walls, waiting rooms and people who play it safe when it comes to decorating.
It’s not brilliant white and it’s not pale yellow or pale pink or even beige, it’s just sort of blah- actually sort of like the colour surrounding the text box I’m replying in!
Yeeesh. I can’t even imagine how a color can be both pale yellow and pale pink at the same time without ending up with a disconcerting raw-chicken hue. It must be horrible.
Here in the states, we just go with beige (or sometimes “off-white”) when we want to lull people into a deep sense of listlessness. So count your blessings.
As a computer engineer, I’m partial to apple red and big blue.
Ugh. Yellow chalks are (in my experience) softer than white ones, and just feel wrong in the hand. They’re also harder to erase fully.
You can tell you’ve spent too much time in academia when you have strong opinions about chalk.
Law-talkin’ dude here. Put me down for dark green. But yes, context is everything.
You rarely see purple on advertised products as its too “different” for consumers and they like the familiar. The exception obviously being grape flavors.
Pink is only for girl stuff, and of course, when you add blue to pink, you get purple, which is why many girl things are also purple.
I’ll stick to black.
Every time I go to a Code Pink event, all these women who normally wear black (like me) get up there and say “Ordinarily I never wear pink–but I’ll make an exception for this.”
Black is my default clothing color choice, and I am quite happy in 100% black. When I wear colors, my whole color wardrobe is keyed to purple: wine, burgundy, fuchsia, magenta, maroon, indigo, any deep color that goes well with purple. Since purple goes well with both black and pink, it works quite well for me.
Also… I read Alice Walker. 
Why? Does she write about what colors educated professionals prefer?
Well I would call Alice Walker an educated intellectual, yeah.
I heard somewhere purple is supposed to be the lesbian color. I don’t know if Walker titled her book accordingly, or if the association was caused by the book.
All I know is she explained her use of the word “womanist” this way: “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”
Some years ago I was planning to buy a Honda Civic. My daughter asked me what color I wanted and I said green. Then she said there was a study showing that green was the color preferred by geniuses. I did get the green Honda, but now my other daughter is driving it. I recently got a silver one, but that was only because it was the last one on the lot, and I wanted it right away.
“You can have a Steamer in any color you like… just so long as it’s black.”