Yellow: 37 facts about the color of happiness!

Yellow is a wonderful color that many people love.

Yellow is considered to be the color of happiness and this is why many people love it. Let’s find out more info about the color!

1. Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light.
2. It is considered one of the 3 primary colors.
3. The rest of the primary colors are blue and green.
4. The word yellow is originated from the Old English geolu.
5. Yellow can represent light and the sun’s rays as well as lightning.
6. In many countries, yellow has a specific meaning.
7. For instance, in Japan, yellow is the color of courage, whereas, in Egypt, yellow is the color of mourning.
8. In China yellow represents wealth, because it is the color of royalty.
9. In general, yellow is the color of sunshine, hope, and happiness.
10. There is a specific term about different species of fish that have yellow tails or a yellow body.
11. They are called yellowtail.
12. Some animals, like bees, are black and yellow.
13. They use it as a warning so that other animals will know to stay away from them.
14. Goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae.
15. Yellow activates the memory.
16. Also, it stimulates the nervous system.
17. Unlikely blue, yellow is linked with food.
18. In marketing campaigns, it is used to advertisements aimed to children.
19. Yellow is a “positive” color, but in case it is overused it has negative effects.
20. For example, babies cry more when the room is painted yellow.
21. Also, when too much yellow is used you can lose focus.
22. Too little yellow causes feelings of isolation and fear, insecurity, and low self-esteem.
23. In American slang when you call someone “yellow” or “yellow-bellied” you basically call him a coward.
24. Original post-it cards were originally yellow.
25. This happened by accident because the lab next to the creators’ lab happened to have some yellow scrap paper.
26. Yellow is an intensive and visible color.
27. This is why it is used to indicate caution.
28. Yellow is an “autumn color”, because of the color that the leaves have when they fall from the trees.
29. School buses normally are yellow.
30. This also because yellow is visible, and school buses should be visible to any driver anytime.
31. Wiz Khalifa released in 2010 the song Black and Yellow.
32. It was the first song of the artist that reached number one in the Billboard Hot 100.
33. Yellow is the color of New York City’s taxis.
34. This happened because the unofficial drivers were barred from picking up people on the street, but they readily found business in under-served neighborhoods.
35. In 1967, New York City ordered all of the taxis to be painted yellow to help cut down on unofficial drivers and make official taxicabs more readily recognizable.
36. Yellow was very important in the series of “How I met your mother”.
37. Ted met the mother while she was holding a yellow umbrella, which later became the symbol of love for the TV series fans.