This web site is designed in various shades of green. Malane Newman theorizes that a web site design where green is dominant would be considered "Fresh, Healing, Refreshing, Soothing and Natural."
Since the beginning of time, green has signified growth, rebirth, and fertility. In pagan times, there was the "Green Man" - a symbol of fertility. Traffic lights are green all over the world.(© Color Matters)
According to WebReference, green is associated with "nature, health, cheerfulness, environment, money, vegetation, nature, fresh, cool, growth, abundance." A survey of over 130,000 people, run by Color Matters found that green is most frequently associated with good luck. However, there aren't many green racing cars, since racers generally consider green unlucky.(© Color Matters) Mike's Anime Open, published on ThreeMusketeers.net, talks about green respresenting the following: "nature, the environment, good luck, youth, vigor, jealousy, envy, and misfortune."
Mike's Anime also starts the conversation about the meaning of the color green in various cultures. He presents research about Japan:
"According to Henry Dreyfus, green, midori is regarded as the color of eternal life, as seen in evergreens which never change their color from season to season. In the word midori, both trees and vegetation are implied. One characteristic of Japanese culture can be found in the fusion of life and nature."
In Britain, "green can suggest wantonness or fidelity in the wedding ceremony. The color can represent happiness, youth, and charming ladies. Sea-green can be suggestive of a deceitful nature." (© Xerox)
For the Chinese, green takes the same symbolism as blue, with which it is interchangeable. It represents the blue or green dragon, spring, the east, wood, and also water. Green is the color of the Ming Dynasty, and of jade, which is considered lucky. (© Xerox) Moreover, green may symbolize infidelity. A green hat symbolizes that a man's wife is cheating on him. (© Color Matters)
For some native peoples, green is the color of death. It is also regarded as ugly by some. The Cagaba believe greenish-gray can heal the chills and fever or illness.(© Xerox)
The national color, green should not be used on packages. Green can mean fertility, vegetation, rain and strength.(© Xerox)
Blue and green are not differentiated by the Amhara. Green in the Ethiopian flag means hope.(© Xerox)
For the Hindu, it is a festive color. In Maharashtra, it represents life and happiness. For that reason, a widow does not wear green. (© Xerox)
The most sacred color of Islam, green signals joy. It was the color of the Prophet Mohammed. Green is sacred in both Muslim and Parsi religions.
The combination of green and white two colors represents the religious and cultural identity of the people of Iran.(© Xerox)
The Mayans associate green with luck. The Aztecs regarded green as royal. Today, green as a national color stands for independence.(© Xerox)
The Maori consider red and green to be colors of celebration.
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The indigenous peoples of Peru, the Quechua, Aymara, and Tupac Katari among them, weave cloths that are highly symbolic of their spiritual lives. The color and pattern of the weaving can identify where it was woven, the cloth's function, as well as the user's gender and social status. The Tupac Katari honor a very involved flag, which is square and consists of 49 squares of red, orange, yellow, white, green, purple, blue, light blue, pink, dark red, coffee, lead, ochre, black and light green. Each color has its own special meaning. Green can be symbolic of economy for the Tupac Katari.
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Green represents the sea, nature, water and the sky. It also can signify that something is raw or unripe. Green can also represent illness.(© Xerox)
Green is the color of the North. It is associated with water, rebirth, and a crossed thunderbolt. Green also can be representative of the earth. (© Xerox)
Green signifies renewal, freedom from bondage, fertility, freshness, health and hopefulness. It is also the color of Christmas, Easter and the Epiphany.(© Xerox)
Green is the color of luck in the U.S. It can also communicate the concepts of money, growth, jealousy, the environment, illness, spring, youth, inexperience and newness.(© Xerox) Green has been reinterpreted by late 20th century American culture to signify a state of heightened sexuality in this specific situation. (© Color Matters)