The color green

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here is some fun information about the color green:

• Green is considered good luck in most Western cultures, for example a green shamrock.
• Green is a secondary color, a combination of yellow and blue.
• Green is the color of growth, prosperity, balance and harmony.
• It creates equilibrium between the head and the heart.
• Green governs the heart chakra and relates to love and balance.
• If your favorite color is green, you are understanding, self-controlled, adaptable, sympathetic, generous, humble and romantic.
• It is the color of nature, spring, renewal and rebirth.
• It promotes growth, vitality, dependability, compassion, and generosity.
• Green is rejuvenating and nurturing with a strong connection to safety.
• It is the most restful color for the human eye.
• Traffic lights are green all over the world.
• In Spain, racy jokes are "green."
• In China, a green hat can be a symbol of infidelity, symbolizing that a man's wife is cheating on him.
• In Japan, the words for blue and green ("ao") are the same.
• At racetracks, green cars are considered unlucky.
• In Feng Shui, green eases absent-mindedness, nervousness and rudeness.

Sources: threeheartscompany.com, empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com, color-wheel-pro.com, colormatters.com